Tropical Storm Ida

POST-IDA:

On Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, Tropical Storm Ida made landfall on the gulf coast near Mobile Bay. The Navarre, Fort Walton Beach, and Destin areas prepared for strong tropical strength winds and heavy rain leading into Monday night. The storm had passed through by Tuesday morning leaving a handful of damage in the areas close to sea level. I took a drive out to Destin today and photographed some of the damage found in the Destin Point and Jetty East condominiums. The top photo is one of the houses that had severe damage in the garage area. Below is an image of a worker at Jetty East cleaning up the parking garage area.:



The driveways were broken in half as well:



Another house a few doors down that lost the entire garage floor just a couple days after they repaired it. The paint was still drying on the walls when the storm hit and pounded the cement to the shore with a sound that resembled "bombs dropping" as the resident said.



The same house as a few pictures up, but with a wider view of the area. Trees were on the ground, garages were destroyed, and driveways were almost non-existent:



On my way back, I stopped on Highway 98 between Okaloosa Island and Destin to capture an image of some of the flooding by the road:



Before I returned home, I stopped by Meigs Park in Shalimar to see if it had any damage. I saw some of the wood by the seawall was uprooted but nothing else noteworthy. I took a snapshot of this woman walking along the damage:



PRE-IDA:

Before Ida make landfall, I drove to Okaloosa Island to look at the impact the storm was having on the beach. The waves were roughly crashing against the pier:



One guy was skim boarding on the water until he was told to stop because of the danger. I'm sure there were plenty of skim boarders finding a wave that day:



Underneath the pier:



A woman and her child walked along the beach before the storm:





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