Hurricane Ivan

1 Year ago this week – 2017 Edwin A. “Buz” Eddy retired as city planner after 25 years. He guided Gulf Breeze through the recovery from Hurricane Ivan and helped determine priorities for the city including, extending the natural gas line to Pensacola Beach, adding a bike lane to Sunset Drive, replacing the ...

“One of the most recent projects was a lady who was living in a house that was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan, back in (2004),” Ketterer said. “She was never able to fix the place up, so there were sewage problems, and there was actually sewage inside the house. They went in there, they got a bunch of ...

We'll continue to track Hurricane Ivan as it heads closer. ... Cantore and his crew have been following Ivan across Florida for days. .... Early this month, while Hurricane Frances was battering Florida, the Weather Channel was the country's most-watched cable news station, earning the highest ratings in its ...

In 2004, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) moved inmates out as Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne moved in. But when Category 5 Irma was forecast to roar right over the Southwest Miami-Dade prison last summer, authorities decided not to evacuate. Instead, the feds brought in more guards.

Coming from a military family and having to move around the country, she has experienced all sorts of crazy weather events, including the May 1998 tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Lexi's journey began at Northwest Florida State College where she earned her A.A. degree, ...

According to the National Employment Law Project Action Fund, just 7,149 workers were able to apply for Disaster Unemployment Assistance in Florida — the lowest in the state since 2004 when 8,309 workers applied following Hurricane Ivan. Disaster Unemployment Assistance data is collected by the ...

Having moved to the Cayman Islands in May 2005, British Virgin Islands resident Joyce Titley was able to experience firsthand the recovery efforts after Hurricane Ivan. Nearly 13 years after Ivan, the BVI is struggling to bounce back from its own devastating storm, Hurricane Irma. According to Ms. Titley and ...

Larry Butler worked with renowned recording artists, such as Johnny Cash and Kenny Rogers, during his career in Nashville, and continued to show appreciation for his hometown through his generosity, including holding a benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding effort following Hurricane Ivan.

Brian Lara's West Indian team has pledged financial support to the islands ravaged by Hurricane Ivan. Speaking at a press conference ahead of his team's match against Bangladesh at the Rose Bowl tomorrow, Lara announced that the team hoped they could lift the spirits of people in Grenada, Jamaica and the Cayman ...

Despite these long-term numbers, it should be noted that a number of systems do in fact form outside the normal hurricane season. While the Cayman Islands were spared any significant impact in 2017, we should recall the damage of Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Paloma in 2008 to remind us of ...

An Italian-American fast-food casual restaurant on North Davis Highway in Pensacola has ceased operations. Fazoli's, a chain restaurant based out of Lexington, Kentucky, closed down Wednesday night, according to Gavin Cowan, a manager at the 7210 N. Davis Highway location at the time of its closing.

The school has not been used as a special needs shelter since 2004 when Hurricane Ivan struck the area. This year was the first year the health department used the gymnasium as their primary area for evacuees, rather than individual classrooms. During the exercise, the gym was filled with 80 beds to ...

Davidson Middle School serves as a shelter for evacuees during emergencies – such as hurricanes – for people with certain needs, but don't require skilled medical care or hospitalization. ... The school has not been used as a special needs shelter since 2004 when Hurricane Ivan struck the area.

In 2004, for instance, Virginia was slammed by a whopping 84 twisters — 40 of them attributed to Hurricane Ivan. “Ivan was the most prolific tornado-producing tropical system ever recorded,” said Jeff Orrock, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wakefield. But, while hurricanes can have ...

The TV series followed zoo director Patti Hall and her staff as they evacuated nearly 300 animals before hurricanes Ivan (2004), Dennis (2005) and Katrina (2005). The escape ahead of Ivan saved lives, as the storm which devastated Gulf Shores submerged the zoo's property in 17-foot deep waters.

Pieces of the original, iconic Pensacola Beach sign, recovered after Hurricane Ivan, hang on one wall. Even in the bathroom, you'll find walls are papered with vintage Pensacola yearbook photos. “The memorabilia on the back wall, if you were a traveler back in the day and we went with the 40's era.

A lot of these small island developing states have pretty high debt loads, often attributable to natural disasters, meaning hurricanes, especially in the Caribbean. For example, on Grenada in 2004, Hurricane Ivan blew through and the damage was something like 200 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) ...

“I'm staying because I'm looking to grow," Nieves said. "In Puerto Rico, we went backward after the hurricane." David Flores (L) and Ivan Nieves (R) inside the space they're renovating to open up their business in Miami's MiMo district. They left Puerto Rico in October. Carmen Sesin, NBC News.

The convention center at the Gulf State Park was once the bustling center of activity along the Baldwin County beaches. That all ended when Hurricane Ivan devastated the area in 2004. Now, more than a decade later, life is returning to this patch of sand with the construction of a 350-room Hilton Hotel, ...

The previous zoo site was prone to flooding and inundated with water from Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Its recovery became the topic of a series on Animal Planet television network, which told the story of the zoo's struggles and garnered support. “One of the things that happened was we did an Animal Planet ...

Larry Butler worked with renowned recording artists, such as Johnny Cash and Kenny Rogers, during his career in Nashville, and continued to show appreciation for his hometown through his generosity, including holding a benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding effort following Hurricane Ivan.

Forecasting in the Gulf Coast region requires experience with some of the world's most devastating weather threats. Sealls said his most memorable work was the continuous coverage he did during Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, both of which directly hit Mobile. For Ivan, his news ...

For example, there will not be another Hurricane Andrew, after the devastating 1992 Category 5 storm. And the 2004 and 2005 seasons saw a whole slew of names retired from the list including, Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne, Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma. Hurricane Joaquin is also off the list.

Monster Hurricane Ivan struck the northern Gulf Coast in mid-September 2004 after wreaking havoc across the Caribbean. The storm was a category 3 when it moved ashore on the Emerald Coast, but at times reached category 5 status with winds of 165 mph. The storm killed 125 people and caused $20.5 ...