re: 10 years ago today - Hurricane Ivan

I'll have to find my pictures and post them. It was truly an awesome display of destruction, you can't really comprehend how bad it was with out being here a few days afterwards. The pictures tell the story but lack the true magnitude of the damage.

The weather afterwards was some of the best that I've ever felt here. That storm changed the atmosphere for a good two weeks. It was absolutely perfect weather, which really helped with the cleaning up and help keep further damage to a minimum.

My brother and I played poker with some friends in mobile til 4am and watched the weather all night. It was really eery and I knew that Orange Beach was getting hammered. I was shocked when I saw it first hand the next day. I have several friends who were city admins, or Council members at the time who road it out at the city jail. Said it was intense.