CrimsonMaiden
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Weird Harold said:
Glad I'm going to be in Kentucky this weekend instead of home.
Cloudy, I'm glad you came through everything ok.
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Glad I'm going to be in Kentucky this weekend instead of home.
Cloudy, I'm glad you came through everything ok.
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CrimsonMaiden said:Glad I'm going to be in Kentucky this weekend instead of home.
Eastern (mouse and modem side) of Kentucky is currently getting a lot of rain from the fringes of Ivan -- Somerset, Lexington and Jackson are all covered with pretty color on the weather radar right now (1355 UTC radar image)
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/images/DS.p20-r/SI.kohx/latest.gif
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/images/DS.p20-r/SI.kmrx/latest.gif
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/images/DS.p20-r/SI.khtx/latest.gif
(These links update about every five minutes but you'll probably need to refresh them to get the current images.)
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I think back on this thread yesterday I said something about the Flora-Bama being gone. For those of you that don't know what that is, I found this article:
Legendary Flora-Bama Belted, Buried, Standing
by Joe Danborn, Staff Reporter, Mobile Register
The Flora-Bama lives.
In a manner of speaking.
That's the tentative answer to one of the more earnest questions that people on Alabama's coastline were asking Thursday: Did the Flora-Bama Lounge & Package store, that Perdido Key paragon, survive Hurricane Ivan?
"I heard the 'Bama's totally gone," an officer said at the Orange Beach police station. A friend of his got that from folks in Florida, he said, raising his eyebrows, pursing his lips and nodding gravely.
Actually, it remains in its rightful place, straddling the state line on Beach Boulevard. But its familiar wood floor is now 3 feet of sand. The structure lost portions of walls and its roof and appeared to have heaved its contents onto Alabama 182.
Among the items left standing were the bar's marquee and a front window covered by a plywood sheet on which someone had spray-painted, "till we float away."
Parts of the bar itself and much of what had been inside were strewn across the high way -- simple bar stools, aged ice chests, electric beer signs, steel kegs, a wood-handled blade for shucking oysters. An industrial-sized propane tank sat on its side in what would have been the roadway, hissing and smelling of sulfur. Something else reeked of rotting seafood.
And everywhere, there was booze. Stacked neatly on a shelf inside, bottles of champagne and merlot. Cast about in the tempest, flasks of Southern Comfort and Jose Cuervo Gold, 1.75-liter bottles of Jack Daniel's and Finnish vodka and Puerto Rican rum and several longnecks of Flora-Bama Mullet Head Red, some near-buried in sand, a few broken but most still sealed.
It was as if a pirate ship had run aground.
The Flora-Bama has been a beloved rebel legend. Before Baldwin County eased its blue laws, Alabama drinkers would go there to pick up a six-pack on Sunday. And Alabamians would avoid the authorities' evacuation orders by shuffling to the Florida side of the bar, and vice versa. Or so the story goes.
Developers built their high-rise condos, pastel and sand-hued, steadily closer to the bar in recent years, to the point that one began to steal some of the beachfront bar's sunlight. The Flora-Bama and its gritty, graying wood stayed put. Until Ivan.
There's probably enough of the structure left that the proprietors could bolster a couple of the walls, build around it and insist that the Flora-Bama never fell.
Still, the bar and the few other older buildings took the storm far harder than the more recent structures, especially in the stretch between Alabama Point and the state line. Ivan tore away the walls of several of the shorter condos. Practically every single-family home sustained more severe damage. A few were leveled, their utensils sitting atop the sand hundreds of feet from their kitchens. One house just across the Florida line came to rest more or less intact, squarely in the middle of the sand-covered road.
The hurricane mangled large sections of the highway, which was undriveable at any rate due to a massive crane that fell across it. And the storm flattened the Perdido Key dunes.
At least the Flora-Bama is still there, for now.
Mobile lawyer Braxton Counts was among the handful of souls who managed to make the pilgrimage Thursday. He had come back to assess the damage to a nearby residence he and his wife own, one they had visited just Monday.
But Mrs. Counts didn't want to make it down to the 'Bama that night, her husband recalled.
"I tried to get her to come," he said, "but she wouldn't do it. I said, We need to go one more time, just in case.'"
Legendary Flora-Bama Belted, Buried, Standing
by Joe Danborn, Staff Reporter, Mobile Register
The Flora-Bama lives.
In a manner of speaking.
That's the tentative answer to one of the more earnest questions that people on Alabama's coastline were asking Thursday: Did the Flora-Bama Lounge & Package store, that Perdido Key paragon, survive Hurricane Ivan?
"I heard the 'Bama's totally gone," an officer said at the Orange Beach police station. A friend of his got that from folks in Florida, he said, raising his eyebrows, pursing his lips and nodding gravely.
Actually, it remains in its rightful place, straddling the state line on Beach Boulevard. But its familiar wood floor is now 3 feet of sand. The structure lost portions of walls and its roof and appeared to have heaved its contents onto Alabama 182.
Among the items left standing were the bar's marquee and a front window covered by a plywood sheet on which someone had spray-painted, "till we float away."
Parts of the bar itself and much of what had been inside were strewn across the high way -- simple bar stools, aged ice chests, electric beer signs, steel kegs, a wood-handled blade for shucking oysters. An industrial-sized propane tank sat on its side in what would have been the roadway, hissing and smelling of sulfur. Something else reeked of rotting seafood.
And everywhere, there was booze. Stacked neatly on a shelf inside, bottles of champagne and merlot. Cast about in the tempest, flasks of Southern Comfort and Jose Cuervo Gold, 1.75-liter bottles of Jack Daniel's and Finnish vodka and Puerto Rican rum and several longnecks of Flora-Bama Mullet Head Red, some near-buried in sand, a few broken but most still sealed.
It was as if a pirate ship had run aground.
The Flora-Bama has been a beloved rebel legend. Before Baldwin County eased its blue laws, Alabama drinkers would go there to pick up a six-pack on Sunday. And Alabamians would avoid the authorities' evacuation orders by shuffling to the Florida side of the bar, and vice versa. Or so the story goes.
Developers built their high-rise condos, pastel and sand-hued, steadily closer to the bar in recent years, to the point that one began to steal some of the beachfront bar's sunlight. The Flora-Bama and its gritty, graying wood stayed put. Until Ivan.
There's probably enough of the structure left that the proprietors could bolster a couple of the walls, build around it and insist that the Flora-Bama never fell.
Still, the bar and the few other older buildings took the storm far harder than the more recent structures, especially in the stretch between Alabama Point and the state line. Ivan tore away the walls of several of the shorter condos. Practically every single-family home sustained more severe damage. A few were leveled, their utensils sitting atop the sand hundreds of feet from their kitchens. One house just across the Florida line came to rest more or less intact, squarely in the middle of the sand-covered road.
The hurricane mangled large sections of the highway, which was undriveable at any rate due to a massive crane that fell across it. And the storm flattened the Perdido Key dunes.
At least the Flora-Bama is still there, for now.
Mobile lawyer Braxton Counts was among the handful of souls who managed to make the pilgrimage Thursday. He had come back to assess the damage to a nearby residence he and his wife own, one they had visited just Monday.
But Mrs. Counts didn't want to make it down to the 'Bama that night, her husband recalled.
"I tried to get her to come," he said, "but she wouldn't do it. I said, We need to go one more time, just in case.'"
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And what it was like before:
Too much for one state: A songwriter at the Flora-Bama Lounge and Package described the beach-hugging roadhouse as a place where you "wipe your feet on the way out."
But for the 23 years since Joe Gilchrist purchased a once-struggling package store on Perdido Key, much of Northwest Florida and Lower Alabama has been wearing out the well-worn welcome mat at the legendary Flora- Bama, known as "The Last Great American Roadhouse."
On any given weekend night, you're likely to find a half-dozen musicians scattered about on the sprawling complex that straddles the state line, playing on one of four Flora-Bama stages. Jimmy Buffett and other big names have been known to drop by unannounced to play, but even when its only locals jamming, the music always simmers.
Each November, the Flora- Bama is the headquarters for the Frank Brown International Songwriters' Festival, which features more than a hundred of Nashville's most talented writers, as well as big-shot recording artists such as Shawn Mullins and Billy Joe Shaver.
And it's not all music. One of the biggest events of the year at the Flora-Bama is the annual "Mullet Toss" where hundreds of contestant fling the fish across the Florida-Alabama state line, with prizes awarded for distance.
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/special/101/images/florabama.jpg
Too much for one state: A songwriter at the Flora-Bama Lounge and Package described the beach-hugging roadhouse as a place where you "wipe your feet on the way out."
But for the 23 years since Joe Gilchrist purchased a once-struggling package store on Perdido Key, much of Northwest Florida and Lower Alabama has been wearing out the well-worn welcome mat at the legendary Flora- Bama, known as "The Last Great American Roadhouse."
On any given weekend night, you're likely to find a half-dozen musicians scattered about on the sprawling complex that straddles the state line, playing on one of four Flora-Bama stages. Jimmy Buffett and other big names have been known to drop by unannounced to play, but even when its only locals jamming, the music always simmers.
Each November, the Flora- Bama is the headquarters for the Frank Brown International Songwriters' Festival, which features more than a hundred of Nashville's most talented writers, as well as big-shot recording artists such as Shawn Mullins and Billy Joe Shaver.
And it's not all music. One of the biggest events of the year at the Flora-Bama is the annual "Mullet Toss" where hundreds of contestant fling the fish across the Florida-Alabama state line, with prizes awarded for distance.
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/special/101/images/florabama.jpg
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Weird Harold said:
Good thing I'm going to Western Kentucky.
LOL, sorry, but even if it did rain, it wouldn't dampen my spirits. I'm getting a weekend away with hubby (without the kids) for the first time in 2 years.
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Re: Re: Ivan~
Thanks Min~
(~_*)
Goose ya later~
Bamagirl called from southern Alabama,
gonna be with out power for a bit,
but they made it.
Hey lady in disguise??? CM~
cloudy~
Ab~
mismused~
doormouse~
minsue said:Good to see you, MET.
Thanks Min~
(~_*)
Goose ya later~
Bamagirl called from southern Alabama,
gonna be with out power for a bit,
but they made it.
Hey lady in disguise??? CM~
cloudy~
Ab~
mismused~
doormouse~
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Cloudy...wonderful memories and history you shared...many thanks....Ivan's tail end is just arriving in Eastern North Carolina and we have been under a tornado watch for several hours.
Ivan was one bad dude....nice to know you are all right.
amicus
Ivan was one bad dude....nice to know you are all right.
amicus
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