Same. The 2 people I was talking to down there are both out of contact, now, too. Both were through the worst of it, and both went quiet about the same time as your boy...probably a tower went offline.

If A.D. Livingston is still alive and kicking, I hope he and his folk are OK in Wewahitchka.

Always loved reading his work in Gray's Sporting Journal.

Wewa is a sportsman's paradise.Hopefully it's still there...

WTVY just reported 70% without power in Dothan.

Business must be really good. 😉

We’ve been without power for couple hours

Ha ha. Never have watched it until you mentioned it.

Bet the taxidermist had his work cut out for him on that bird.

The hurricane outperformed all expectations and Mexico beach is destroyed. I don’t know why folks want to downplay the storm just as much as I don’t understand folks that over hype it.

Just got a legit video from Mexico Beach with identifiable points. Mexico Beach as some of us know it, is gone. 10-12 ft of standing water in all developed areas on the main road. Video was taken off the balcony of that condo on the canal on the north side of road. Didn't see a ton of wind damage since condo where it was filmed from was fine on the third floor but looks like storm surge pretty much got it all. Just a huge pond of floating debris as far as you can see.

Yep and most of them are 100 miles away arm chair quarterbacking. We'll know tomorrow what the damage is.

Bob, If I've got my bearings right, that was taken just west of where the one I saw was taken. Looked pretty much the exact same though. Man I hope all those people got out of there and evacuated.

If y'all goof wads would click on links in the forum gomer posted that video earlier

The Weather Channel (take that for what it’s worth) just said this is the 3rd most intense storm to make landfall in the U.S.

I’m aware of that. I was just posting it without the link in reference to abolts post.

My aunt and uncle rode it out in one of the worst looking spots

They had a tree down on a carport, and completely lost a storage shed. Pretty good considering. They have a whole home diesel generator and are fine

I thought they were crazy

What a cluster! I just checked out my local power company West Florida Electric's Facebook page and had to chuckle. They say they are on backup power but lost Internet, phone and cellphone. They lost their outage management system because of no internet. How are you a public electric company without a backup internet and phone system or other redundancy to keep your outage management system up? That's poor planning to say the least. Some idiot is sitting in the graceville office with backup power and Air conditioning scratching his head trying to figure out who doesn't have power. They say they don't know who is out of power. People need to raise hell with the trustees of the coop about this. What's the point of backup power if you can't see where outages are. I was without power for 4-5 days after last year's hurricane but FPL knew I was out and had redundant reporting systems for people to report outages. WFEC needs to learn from FPL. Trustees need to get on the WFEC's case about preparedness. You can't fix stupid.

The footage ive seen of mexico beach looks pretty bad. I expect in the morning the footage we will get will be even worse. Its hard to drive the news van in when the road is 6ft under water. Panama city beach was in the good side of the storm. Ive got a friend with a house obout 2 blocks off laguna beach. He said he didnt have any damage. I think TWC did a poor job of covering this storm. Alot of their footage during the storm was from behind a highrise condo. Im betting when the footage of the hardest hit areas start pouring in in the morning, there will be no doubt how powerful this storm was.

Meh, haven’t you heard? If it isn’t leveled, with nothing left but dirt, it couldn’t have been a CAT 4. Just a stiff summer breeze.