Visit to our house at Tyndall AFB

Photos of Tyndall AFB/Panama City hurricane wreckage

10/21/18

Look out for the extra large pics below for some dramatic views

Eufala, Alabama- a beautiful town with a lake (on the way to FL).  When you drive right through the middle of it you see some of its 500+ historic buildings.  Gorgeous homes that seem out of place with the rest of the rural area.  Antebellum south.

 That big peanut I mentioned before ;)

As we got closer to Panama City, we saw many, many (if not almost all!) trees broken in half, leaning over, or dramatically uprooted.  It was shocking.

 Across the street from our house- trees are missing most or all leaves.

our roof- three damage points and siding was off, also

 Front of our house- our house was largely spared, which was very fortunate. 

Another view across the street- palm trees didn't get stripped, the other types did.

Side/backyard view of our house, with the fence wrecked and stuff blown around.  No patio furniture was damaged, impressively!

Backyard looking pretty rough!

Robert's car needed new windshield and 2 new windows.  Seems that a stick got lodged here.

 These trees look decapitated.  (They may have been trimmed by the clean up crews.)

This, to me, looks like a tree stuck in a tree.  Debris all around.  (I could have taken tons of these types of pictures; it was sad to see such destruction.)

I think this was the front of the house we almost moved into- front corner damage as well as extensive back main room wall and roof damage (see below.)

This is the house we almost moved into, roof missing over dining/living room space.  This would have possibly wrecked all our unpacked boxes of books and maybe ruined our framed art which had been unpacked.  Thankfully our stuff wasn't there.

Seems like a fence crashed through here.

Tons of debris has been pushed to the side.  It will take so long to clean up all of it.

The road to the housing neighborhoods on base looks so barren.  There was so much more greenery; it was a beautiful forest all along the way.

We saw lots of vehicles turned on their sides.

Trees uprooted.  How nature ripped through!!!

One of the most dramatic views I saw. 

This cutie slept almost three hours of the five hour drive home.  I still felt tremendous pressure to make fast time back to Atlanta and concentrate very intensely to drive safely and get as many miles done while he slept. I had to go to St. Louis to get Nesya the next day and get back to ATL to get Adira before nighttime and get her ready for school, etc....was intense but thank G-d went well and I was pleased that I got it all done.

Two unexpectedly good blind photos- so many incredible miles of flowers between the highway sides, south of Atlanta 

Happy traveler (getting pampered by Mommy with traveling treats!)