In comes Frederic, out goes building, after building. The tallest buildings are four stories. It escaped serious damage from Hurricane Frederic.An archive photo of Pensacola Beach, pre-Hurricane Frederic in September 1979.Terry Preston family member standing in front of large dunes on Pensacola Beach before they were flattened by Hurricane Frederic in 1979.After Hurricane Frederic, dunes were flattened on the western end of Santa Rosa Island.Storm surge damage from Hurricane Fredericnon Pensacola Beach.Terry Preston shares her thoughts on the recovery of the dunes behine her Pensacola Beach home, which is about a thousand feet from the gulf. In September of 1979, it was an immediate disaster right after Frederic.Mel Showers: Ninety-five percent of the structures on the beach received some damage or were destroyed. The Key was flattened; most of the houses were gone,” remembered Mike Aymond.“Likewise, I actually got a job out here (Gulf Islands National Seashore) to rebuild the dunes with the Young Adult Conservation Corps. Hurricane Frederic produced severe wind damage in many areas across southern Alabama. Hurricane Frederic the sixth named storm, the third hurricane, and the second major hurricane of the 1979 Atlantic hurricane season.At the time Hurricane Frederic was the costliest hurricane to hit the U.S. But Gulf Shores wasn’t always like this. (In 1979) It was all just dunes, just open beach.”.Back then, she recalls, Via De Luna was a two-lane road. Sherecounts watching the approach of Hurricane Frederic on television, while on anchored on a ship in Galveston, Texas.“I’m looking at these waves just banging away at the pier and I realized that was our pier, at my beach, where I had just bought a house four months earlier,” she reminisced with a chuckle.Hurricane Frederic was a strong Category-4 storm when it made landfall at Dauphin Island west of Pensacola on the evening of September 12, 1979.WKRG-TV5 produced a ten-year retrospective titled, “Hurricane Frederic: A Night to Remember.”,The narrator describes the aftermath, “September 13, the fury of Hurricane Frederic has left a path of destruction 250 miles wide and 150 miles deep. “The worst damage is to the interior. “So, you’ve got Sugar Bowl, Calle Hermosa, two more neighborhoods, all the towers at Portofino. Lows will dip into the lower 60’s inland and mid-60’s at the coast thanks to a cold front that slid through our area. The Pink Pony stood up to Ivan in 2004!Where I stand right now, in front of the Edgewater on West Beach Boulevard, this one spot tells the full story of Hurricane Frederic’s impact on Gulf Shores. Now the colossal Crystal Tower Condos stands across the street. A NE wind will keep that breeze cooler at 10-15 mph overnight.Highs for your Sunday look to stick in the mid-to-upper 70’s, which will be a nice change of pace. Hurricane Frederic: 35 Year Anniversary Posted ... the storm did 2.3 billion dollars in damage. There were no dunes where they (dunes) were low; like where we were it was flat,” said Preston of what she saw afterward.“Actually, I saw Perdido Key first, and it was surprising just how much damage had been done. The official time of landfall was 2:02 a.m. With 130 mph surface winds and a storm surge of 10-15 feet, the magnitude and extent of the damage and destruction along the Alabama coast exceeded that of both Hurricane Frederic (September 1979) and Hurricane Opal (October 1995). Powerful Hurricane Ivan Slams the Central Gulf Coast as a Category 3 Hurricane September 16, 2004 At 150am on 16 September 2004, powerful Hurricane Ivan made landfall just west of Gulf Shores, AL as a Category 3 Hurricane. It was necessary again just a couple years later post-Ivan and most recently in 2016.From the beach behind her house, Terry Preston likes the progress.“Maybe another three to four feet of dune, we’ll be back to where we were,” she projected.In response to a suggestion that the full recovery could happen in a few more years without a storm she said, “Gosh, keep your fingers and toes crossed. 17 Miami runs past No. Let’s go back in time, before Hurricane Frederic, to a quieter Gulf Shores.You don’t see high-rises, you see cottages amongst sand dunes in what was to become the City of Gulf Shores. At first glance, the structure appeared to have weathered the storm. Hurricane force winds had stretched from Hancock, Mississippi to east of Pensacola.”.The Pensacola area recorded 96 mile-an-hour winds and storm surge as high as 15 feet.The narration continues, “Overall, Pensacola fared better than most coastal areas, but there was heavy damage along the water, nonetheless.”.In the documentary, an unnamed Pensacola Beach resident describes the damage to her home.

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