This storm will forever haunt me! I am thankful that my family survived and wasn't hurt. Feeling your house shift and your roof being torn off is very traumatic. Pensacola has never fully recovered and I will never be the same!
It's actually SHOCKING how under reported the death toll was. We lived just over the bridge from Perdido Key. While listening to the radio numerous people called from the Bayou Grande subdivision, crying and asking the radio station why no Emergency vehicles could come out because there were "dead bodies floating in the water." A friend of ours who lived there also said that they saw more dead bodies there ALONE than were reported for the Pensacola total deaths.
I lived in Navarre during hurricane Ivan. The wind around the house sounded like screaming spirits. We were just north of highway 98 about 1/2 mile north of the sound. It was terrifying. Awesome video.
I love the fact that they just filmed throughout the entire 8/9 minutes and didn't say much of anything. There is nothing more frustrating when you have someone trying to talk about what's happening in these vids. To watch this was riveting. No voice over needed.
Absolutely incredible video, Mike! The nighttime footage is amazing. I'm pretty familiar with that nerve-wracking, totally isolated feeling being stuck in an enclosed location, in complete darkness, during the height of a major hurricane... and your footage captures that perfectly! That wind noise between 2:20 and 2:30 is so eerie!
I thought it was a cat. 4, and if it was, could you please fill me in if and when it strengthened into a cat. 4? I remember that thing hitting us here in Atlanta as a cat. 1. I had to take my Guide Dog Rosie out during a lull, and it wasn't much of one. I remember a branch hitting my back, but I was alright. Rosie was just fine, too, but we were quite spooked.
YourLockerzPal I think you can rent it. I used to drive by there a lot going to work. I haven't seen it in years I still remember the little green dudes too
When I was a kid, around 3 or 4, I sat through this hurricane while my grandmother was bawling her eyes out. It was the first time my family had been separated during a hurricane, usually we just. kinda congregated at someone's house. Anyways, for some stupid reason, my grandmother had the wooden door open so I could see out the screen door. There was destruction and chaos everywhere. At one point, I was looking at my old dollhouse my grandfather had made for me before I was born. It got ripped off of the porch, which it was nailed to. I cured for about an hour over that thing which, looking back, is unreasonable. In the end, the roof got ripped off the house I was in. My great grandparents barely survived. Their whole house was demolished. The only way they survived is by sitting in the bathroom, which was the only thing left standing. During this video, the howling of the winds reminded me of this incident. They sent, and still send, shivers up my spine every time I hear them.
My father used to make light of the hurricanes because of where we lived (mid-Atlantic, inland 100 miles), and storms that did come in tended to be on the weakening phase and just blew through without doing much. Then my big sister experience a blow-by from a storm which had crossed the peninsula after moving to Florida. Not much to laugh at when you're in one of these.
I was there. i was just 3 years old. I was screaming and crying as Ivan's winds started to roar. The eyewall, was terrible. During the eyewall a surge of water came in our house,I got scared and dropped my toys in the surge and when the water pulled back in,so did my toys. all i saw outside was a stormy sea on land. It was dark as night. i saw my toys drift away as well. my mom slammed the door, we went in the closet. i heard a bunch of things falling at water. We slept there. In the morning, we were looking at the damage. i stepped in a pile of seaweed that was on our door step. it was hard, there my toys were.
@UltimateChase I just gotta say. You have big balls my friend. I remember Ivan, I rode it out with a friend in cantonment, and I was quite petrified with that distinct howling noise you only get with a strong hurricane. But to be there that close, and look Ivan in the eye, you got my respect. Thanks for the footage, as a pensacola native, I never really saw the damage with the 3 mile bridge destroyed for so long.
I agree. Even Hurricane Katrina didnt have as much wallop than Ivan where I lived at the time (Crestview). Ivan had our power out for a long time and made us have to really survive. Closest I've ever gotten to living in a post-apocalyptic world.
I lived through hurricane Ivan here in Jamaica. Had to house neighbors. And since that several other hurricanes but thank God we made it through. Just thinking of the Bahamians
Scary footage. Ivan is the main reason I didn’t move back to Pensacola at the time. The whole city seemed depressed and worn out for over two years. Folks were mentally spent. Took a while to recover. Thinking of the beach. I remember how tall the sand dunes were back in the early 80s. They were like little mountains to a 5 year old. The beach is still beautiful but has transformed through the decades due to hurricanes. Sand dunes are no where near as tall as they were. Believe it or not the sand was even whiter then. Miss living there and near those beautiful beaches.
To be alone in this, surrounded by so much force and destruction, knowing everyone around you is in danger because you’re the few who are safe, that’s chilling. Especially the parts in the beginning showing the dark, pitch black hallways, with the screaming winds outside. Amazing recording.
I live in Navarre and I've lived through hurricanes like Betsy and Opal and Ivan and Dennis, and I can tell you it is unbelievably scary. Never stay home. Always evacuate to safety or to a place that is safer than your home. Never stay on an island. You cannot hold up the walls or stop such a force of destruction. You cannot save yourself much less anyone else. My advice is leave when they tell you to.
Incredible footage here, Mike! the wind sounded very spooky and I can only image how fast your adrenelin was pumping. Love this video and thank you so much for sharing it with me-5 stars! :)
One of the worst nights of my life. Sitting there in my house by candlelight and listening to the huge pine trees snapping and thundering onto the ground... wondering if the next one was gonna land in my living room.
I love your videos - very amazing and educational. People need to make videos like this to show how dangerous storm surges are and how fast the water can rise. The no 1 cause of death in hurricanes is drowning due to storm surge. I have no doubt that your work saves lives 👍🏼
I was living there then. I lived in a trailer park in Myrtle Grove and I was at the Civic Center shelter before it even opened. My trailer got cut in half by a pine tree. FEMA helped immensely.
I stayed at a friend's house in Cordova Park during this hurricane. At times, the back door of her home would fly open because of the wind. The whole house shook violently. My dad and I sat on the front porch watching transformers blow across the neighborhood. The next morning we tried to get to our house in Avalon Beach only to find that the bridge had been obliterated. Talk about a crazy storm! It took us two days to find out our house had been destroyed.
Incredible video Mike!! Excellent job. I remember trying to film Frances during the night time hours and it was next to impossible. I wish I had that flood light like you did.
this was my first hurricane, and nothing has beaten it yet for me. I'll never forget waking up in the middle of the night and seeing the tops of the pines almost touching the ground from the wind only when lightning struck....
My first hurricane was Ike in 08. We lived on the bolivar peninsula which is east of Galveston which got the worst of the storm. We evacuated and stayed a little north or Houston and it was incredible. People who haven't been through it wouldn't understand what 110 mph winds are like. It was crazy. Our house ended up being washed away by the 20 foot storm surge. All that was left of our house was the concrete slab that it stood on, and half of that was actually gone too.
110 is definitely not weak. It is 1 shy of major hurricane strength. It isn't cat 5 strength or anything but not weak. Ike did much more damage and had 5 more feet of surge than Ivan did even though it was only a cat 2
I don't get why they called it a Cat 3 when the storm was producing much higher winds and began pounding the Gulf Coast 5-6 hours before the eye made landfall. They should consider that when the rate the hurricanes, as Ivan's wind speed slowed down to a Category 3 just before the eye hit, not before that. I remember it getting bad outside at 9:30 pm and I went to my mom's in Crestview. That's when the power went out and things were hitting the boards on the windows there by 11pm. So, so much damage everywhere, including Navarre and Ft Walton Beach.
Started getting bad in Gulf Shores around 4:30 and the eye went over my head at 2:15 AM. We were getting Hurricane force gust by 7-8 for sure. It was freaking intense and I was In katrina as well but the winds in Ivan were intense. Katrina was different.
Holy Crap!!! I am so glad I was not there to experience that. I would've been up all night not getting any sleep because I would be worried that my house was going to be completely destroyed.
Wow, I am so greatful to have seen this video! I am from Navarre Florida and at the time of Ivan my son had just turned 1 on the 2nd of Sept. I am so happy to have seen this because when I 1st met his father he lived on p'cola beach in the A framed house that you showed. When we went out to check out the damage however the A frame and the rest along with the neighbores house was completely gone! So it was nice to see! Kinda! Funny to think I did a lot of sneaking through those low windows!
Mike this is insanne stuff man unreal.Thanks for posting another great video. With the majority of the ENSO dynamic models forecasting Neutral ENSO by July and most of the eastern tropical atlantic warmer than average i.e; main development region the signs are there for an above average year. thanks again for uploading, adrian
Rode this storm out in Pleasant Grove on the south of Gulf Beach Hwy on Weller Ave. Special night to be sure. Luckily I had lots of beer to drink. Not 5 miles down the road at Grande Lagoon people were dying. At one time shortly before landfall I thought the roof would come off. I took example from my mother's cat and hid in the back bedroom for a bit. Would I evacuate for a similar storm? Hell no. The time to leave is after the storm when everything is messed up.
Hurricane Ivan destroyed our beautiful beach front condo. We came back months after the storm to see the damage ourselves. The roads were all washed away, the parking lot to our building was completely gone. The in ground pool was propped against the building. And the lobby was so full of sand we had to crouch to get into the stair well. It was incredible to think what occurred during that storm, but now I know!
I am watching this because I want to relocate to Florida and I am researching. Can’t imagine living through this spoiled living in the north worse storm we ever had was sandy. Nowhere is perfect. If you have any advice please lmk. Looking into the clearwater area or ft lauderdale on the East coast.
I went through a few storms while I lived in Northwest Florida and every time it amazed me how things ended up working out. There were a lot of "blue roofs" in Pensacola in particular after Ivan for quite some time, basically tarped roofs and I know there were a lot of insurance issues related to whether or not houses were due to storm surge or the rain which many claims took a year or better to resolve. My opinion is to not let hurricanes stop you from moving where you want to move to. Yeah, they can be devastating, but most locals are somewhat used to it and they can even be a community bonding experience, as it was for me. Granted, I didn't lose any property as many have in these storms, so I can't speak from experience on that aspect, though I wouldn't let the risks of hurricanes deter you from moving to this beautiful state. Just watch out for Floridaman.
When Ivan hit, I was living in Mary Esther. We went east to Talahassee and, the following day, made our way back. All our neighbors followed the storm north into Alabama. It took them 3 days to get home. I still don't understand why they proceeded to go where the storm was heading.
Mike Theiss : I live in Graceville, Florida. Graceville is three miles south of the Florida/Alabama State line. I'm twenty miles south of Dothan, Alabama; and sixty miles north of Panama City, Florida. Hurricane Ivan almost blew my little town off the map. It blew down power lines. It uprooted massive oak trees and pecan trees. It spawned six tornadoes in Jackson County, where I live. It was rough, but no where near what Pensacola got. I know Warrington is still trying to recover from Ivan the Terrible. Remember what it did to the east bound lane of I-10, over Escambia Bay?
Debbie Davis : I had read that Ivan created waves over 105 feet high out in the Gulf. I was in the Navy and stationed at N.A.S. Pensacola from September, 1978 till I got out in December, 1982. I was in Pensacola, and living in Warrington when Fred hit in September, 1979. It was rough. My wife and I were living in these apartments on Bayou Grande, just across from the Navy base. You could see the front gate of N.A.S. from our front yard. The water almost came into our apartment. The threshold kept it out. My wife and I had to evacuate. Fortunately, she had some old college friends who lived off New Warrington Road. We stayed there for the night. The winds there got up to 100 mph. It was rough. But I know Ivan was a whole lot worse..
@UltimateChase Oh yeah, that was one scary hurricane to ride out and I was in East Hill at the time. We were so scared the roof was going to come off the house. How did you end up alone in a building on the beach? Why on earth didn't you evacuate? I thought they were pretty much forcing people off the beach?
Visited and still visit this area to this day last time about a month ago. The effects of that storm are still visible. Asphalt is still very noticeably seen mixed with sand from Pensacola Beach all the way to Navarre. Loved visiting this area due to the storm and it's destruction... the road ended about 2 miles after the Portofino Island Resort towers. Walk into a world again without humans.
On top of high winds, storm surge, rain, alaways, always these storms spin off tornados & you don't see them coming. Ivan was said to spin off 142 tornados
So sad! Navarre is so Beautiful! Drove through there yesterday and it looks like it’s rebuilding pretty good hope everyone was okay and bounced back! ❤
You alive to tell the story.Its a scary exsperience I exsperienced a Thypoon in the Philippines.Most powerless moment in my life.This brings back horrifying memories
This was such a massive and such an impressive storm I'm really surprised that there really isn't any actual footage of the storm except for so far this video.
Hot sure you should have risked your life for it, Mike, but thank you. As a person who has visited Pensacola for 60 years, I appreciate it. This takes me back to Charlie and Mobile.
I knew what you meant, severeT. I can never bring myself to evacuate even though I live on Pensacola Bay. I wasn't at all crazy about Ivan coming knowing the potential destruction it could cause but was also very excited. I rationalized that Ivan was coming and there was absolutely nothing I can do about it so being the meteorlogical freak that I am, it was the second most exciting night of my life...of course, the New Orleans Saints winning the Superbowl is number one.
That was the year I was in the Navy on Corry Station and they all put us in a concrete building and it was awesome watching the rain come down totally horizontal but the devastation afterward was totally shocking
I worked night shift at West Florida Hospital. We ended up putting all the patients that was possible in the hallway except for a couple ,one of them would pass that night,rip,I took care of him in the dark, I had a patient pull out blood transfusion and couldn’t find it til the next day, it was complete madness but I felt safe in that building, People sheltered there for weeks afterward. One of my fellow nurses house in Perdido Key was destroyed, he lived in an RV in the parking lot for at least 6 months.
It was bad in Pensacola but worse in Gulf Shores. The East end of the eye went over my head at 2:15 AM. I'll never forget it because a wave knocked my front door off right after and it shook the beach house so bad the clock fell off the wall and it was 2:15. I should've never rode out this storm down there.
I was drinking straight Vodka to stay sober by the time the eye passed over. I use to love watching hurricanes but Ivan changed how I felt after all the devastation and heartache. Some people lost everything they'd saved their whole lives for and couldn't rebuild because storm surge had never come so far and couldn't afford the insurance. I was on a bus with them touring the area with other former homeowners.
You didn't get to see much in the darkness, but when daylight returned, you certainly got plenty of damage to take footage of. That was one of the nastier storms to blow up out of that part of the Gulf, and it hit at one of the more dangerous coastlines for a storm surge.
i lived through this, had a tornado come through my backyard. went outside to help my dad shut his bed cover on his truck. the wind blew me on my ass. sounds like a train shit was scary as hell. never again will i sit thru a category 4 hurricane.
I also agree with u that Ivan was a very scary storm. Of all the storms I have been through, it was by far the scariest. We decide 2rent a room accross from the uwf hospital in N P'cola. Not a good idea. Though we had decided it would be a good spot over Navarre when Ivan was headed straight 4 N.Orleans. But of course made that last minute turn. We woke up 2the intercom of the hospital since 1side of the hospital was gone from a tornado @4am that I cried myself 2sleep 2with a mattress over us!
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This storm will forever haunt me! I am thankful that my family survived and wasn't hurt. Feeling your house shift and your roof being torn off is very traumatic. Pensacola has never fully recovered and I will never be the same!
It's actually SHOCKING how under reported the death toll was. We lived just over the bridge from Perdido Key. While listening to the radio numerous people called from the Bayou Grande subdivision, crying and asking the radio station why no Emergency vehicles could come out because there were "dead bodies floating in the water." A friend of ours who lived there also said that they saw more dead bodies there ALONE than were reported for the Pensacola total deaths.
I lived in Navarre during hurricane Ivan. The wind around the house sounded like screaming spirits. We were just north of highway 98 about 1/2 mile north of the sound. It was terrifying. Awesome video.
I remember going through this storm. When I tell you. This was the scariest experience I’ve ever had.
2:19 Brings back flashbacks, the sound of that howling wind filled the whole room. I was only two when Ivan hit and yet I can recall the roaring wind.
It sounded like freight trains for 10 straight hours
That was 2 years before i was born,i was born in TN
I love the fact that they just filmed throughout the entire 8/9 minutes and didn't say much of anything. There is nothing more frustrating when you have someone trying to talk about what's happening in these vids. To watch this was riveting. No voice over needed.
Absolutely incredible video, Mike! The nighttime footage is amazing. I'm pretty familiar with that nerve-wracking, totally isolated feeling being stuck in an enclosed location, in complete darkness, during the height of a major hurricane... and your footage captures that perfectly! That wind noise between 2:20 and 2:30 is so eerie!
I thought it was a cat. 4, and if it was, could you please fill me in if and when it strengthened into a cat. 4? I remember that thing hitting us here in Atlanta as a cat. 1. I had to take my Guide Dog Rosie out during a lull, and it wasn't much of one. I remember a branch hitting my back, but I was alright. Rosie was just fine, too, but we were quite spooked.
Amazing how the Futureo house (UFO house) was built in the 60s and made it through this...only people from Pensacola will know what I mean!
I want to own that house one day.
the design was to withstand a hurricane
YourLockerzPal I think you can rent it. I used to drive by there a lot going to work. I haven't seen it in years I still remember the little green dudes too
UFO are not real👎👎👎☝👆 your a knuckle head👾👾👾✊✊✊👊
That thing is dope lol especially the alien in the window
When I was a kid, around 3 or 4, I sat through this hurricane while my grandmother was bawling her eyes out. It was the first time my family had been separated during a hurricane, usually we just. kinda congregated at someone's house. Anyways, for some stupid reason, my grandmother had the wooden door open so I could see out the screen door. There was destruction and chaos everywhere. At one point, I was looking at my old dollhouse my grandfather had made for me before I was born. It got ripped off of the porch, which it was nailed to. I cured for about an hour over that thing which, looking back, is unreasonable. In the end, the roof got ripped off the house I was in. My great grandparents barely survived. Their whole house was demolished. The only way they survived is by sitting in the bathroom, which was the only thing left standing.
During this video, the howling of the winds reminded me of this incident. They sent, and still send, shivers up my spine every time I hear them.
My father used to make light of the hurricanes because of where we lived (mid-Atlantic, inland 100 miles), and storms that did come in tended to be on the weakening phase and just blew through without doing much. Then my big sister experience a blow-by from a storm which had crossed the peninsula after moving to Florida. Not much to laugh at when you're in one of these.
much peace and respect! 😢✌
What a scary thing go have gone through....
That is so sad
I was there. i was just 3 years old. I was screaming and crying as Ivan's winds started to roar. The eyewall, was terrible. During the eyewall a surge of water came in our house,I got scared and dropped my toys in the surge and when the water pulled back in,so did my toys. all i saw outside was a stormy sea on land. It was dark as night. i saw my toys drift away as well. my mom slammed the door, we went in the closet. i heard a bunch of things falling at water. We slept there. In the morning, we were looking at the damage. i stepped in a pile of seaweed that was on our door step. it was hard, there my toys were.
@UltimateChase I just gotta say. You have big balls my friend. I remember Ivan, I rode it out with a friend in cantonment, and I was quite petrified with that distinct howling noise you only get with a strong hurricane. But to be there that close, and look Ivan in the eye, you got my respect. Thanks for the footage, as a pensacola native, I never really saw the damage with the 3 mile bridge destroyed for so long.
Mike, amazing footage!! Very interesting to see the water seeping through the concrete like that!! Very scary stuff!!
5 Stars and an add to my favs!!
What 5 stars???
Ive been through Frederick,Erin,Opal,and Ivan,and all the "rain makers" in between here In Pensacola,and nothing had me more worried than Ivan did.
I agree. Even Hurricane Katrina didnt have as much wallop than Ivan where I lived at the time (Crestview). Ivan had our power out for a long time and made us have to really survive. Closest I've ever gotten to living in a post-apocalyptic world.
+Daniel Chance it was scary for sure
λɴΘɴΎɱΘƲȘ Opal freaked me out. Ivan wasn't far behind.
Opel took my best friend that was a hella storm
Ivan was HUGE. I was 100 miles to the East, in Panama City, and we had sustained gale force winds for over 12 hours even there.
I lives through that hurricane and remain here. Our beaches still haven't fully recovered.
Thank you ...15 years ago ...
I lived through hurricane Ivan here in Jamaica. Had to house neighbors. And since that several other hurricanes but thank God we made it through. Just thinking of the Bahamians
Wow! Incredible video!! I'll never forget that night!!
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Finally left Florida after this one, can always visit. Living in the Texas hills now.
Scary footage. Ivan is the main reason I didn’t move back to Pensacola at the time. The whole city seemed depressed and worn out for over two years. Folks were mentally spent. Took a while to recover. Thinking of the beach. I remember how tall the sand dunes were back in the early 80s. They were like little mountains to a 5 year old. The beach is still beautiful but has transformed through the decades due to hurricanes. Sand dunes are no where near as tall as they were. Believe it or not the sand was even whiter then. Miss living there and near those beautiful beaches.
Wow! I remember waiting for this to be over. I don't think I will ever sit through one this strong again. It tore up Pensacola!
To be alone in this, surrounded by so much force and destruction, knowing everyone around you is in danger because you’re the few who are safe, that’s chilling. Especially the parts in the beginning showing the dark, pitch black hallways, with the screaming winds outside. Amazing recording.
I live in Navarre and I've lived through hurricanes like Betsy and Opal and Ivan and Dennis, and I can tell you it is unbelievably scary. Never stay home. Always evacuate to safety or to a place that is safer than your home. Never stay on an island. You cannot hold up the walls or stop such a force of destruction. You cannot save yourself much less anyone else. My advice is leave when they tell you to.
Incredible footage here, Mike! the wind sounded very spooky and I can only image how fast your adrenelin was pumping. Love this video and thank you so much for sharing it with me-5 stars! :)
I went to Pensacola, Fl. in Oct 2005 and they were pretty much still recovering. There is a bridge that they don't use anymore.
One of the worst nights of my life. Sitting there in my house by candlelight and listening to the huge pine trees snapping and thundering onto the ground... wondering if the next one was gonna land in my living room.
just want to say I love your videos and keep them coming!! :)
how could anyone give this a thumbs down???
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Fantastic video, Ultimate Chase. Thank's for posting it.
I love your videos - very amazing and educational. People need to make videos like this to show how dangerous storm surges are and how fast the water can rise. The no 1 cause of death in hurricanes is drowning due to storm surge. I have no doubt that your work saves lives 👍🏼
thanks for letting me enjoy Ivan from my house, thats crazy
I love storm chasing so I can appreciate what you guys are doing.Good job.
I was living there then. I lived in a trailer park in Myrtle Grove and I was at the Civic Center shelter before it even opened. My trailer got cut in half by a pine tree. FEMA helped immensely.
I stayed at a friend's house in Cordova Park during this hurricane. At times, the back door of her home would fly open because of the wind. The whole house shook violently. My dad and I sat on the front porch watching transformers blow across the neighborhood. The next morning we tried to get to our house in Avalon Beach only to find that the bridge had been obliterated. Talk about a crazy storm! It took us two days to find out our house had been destroyed.
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Incredible video Mike!! Excellent job. I remember trying to film Frances during the night time hours and it was next to impossible. I wish I had that flood light like you did.
Incredible footage.
this was my first hurricane, and nothing has beaten it yet for me. I'll never forget waking up in the middle of the night and seeing the tops of the pines almost touching the ground from the wind only when lightning struck....
My first hurricane was Ike in 08. We lived on the bolivar peninsula which is east of Galveston which got the worst of the storm. We evacuated and stayed a little north or Houston and it was incredible. People who haven't been through it wouldn't understand what 110 mph winds are like. It was crazy. Our house ended up being washed away by the 20 foot storm surge. All that was left of our house was the concrete slab that it stood on, and half of that was actually gone too.
+Reckk 110? That's weak lol. During Ivan we were getting about 175 sustained, 185 gusts. It was a beast
110 is definitely not weak. It is 1 shy of major hurricane strength. It isn't cat 5 strength or anything but not weak. Ike did much more damage and had 5 more feet of surge than Ivan did even though it was only a cat 2
I don't get why they called it a Cat 3 when the storm was producing much higher winds and began pounding the Gulf Coast 5-6 hours before the eye made landfall. They should consider that when the rate the hurricanes, as Ivan's wind speed slowed down to a Category 3 just before the eye hit, not before that. I remember it getting bad outside at 9:30 pm and I went to my mom's in Crestview. That's when the power went out and things were hitting the boards on the windows there by 11pm. So, so much damage everywhere, including Navarre and Ft Walton Beach.
I know what you mean, we took refuge in the same City (I lived in Holt at the time)
Started getting bad in Gulf Shores around 4:30 and the eye went over my head at 2:15 AM. We were getting Hurricane force gust by 7-8 for sure. It was freaking intense and I was In katrina as well but the winds in Ivan were intense. Katrina was different.
Holy Crap!!! I am so glad I was not there to experience that. I would've been up all night not getting any sleep because I would be worried that my house was going to be completely destroyed.
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Very spectacular hurricane, excellente video !
Thank you very much for sharing it with me !
@UltimateChase Good coverage. Thanks.
Wow, I am so greatful to have seen this video! I am from Navarre Florida and at the time of Ivan my son had just turned 1 on the 2nd of Sept. I am so happy to have seen this because when I 1st met his father he lived on p'cola beach in the A framed house that you showed. When we went out to check out the damage however the A frame and the rest along with the neighbores house was completely gone! So it was nice to see! Kinda! Funny to think I did a lot of sneaking through those low windows!
That's hard to imagine when 65 miles north of us (in Brewton, Alabama) there was major damage.
Mike this is insanne stuff man unreal.Thanks for posting another great video. With the majority of the ENSO dynamic models forecasting Neutral ENSO by July and most of the eastern tropical atlantic warmer than average i.e; main development region the signs are there for an above average year. thanks again for uploading, adrian
Rode this storm out in Pleasant Grove on the south of Gulf Beach Hwy on Weller Ave. Special night to be sure. Luckily I had lots of beer to drink. Not 5 miles down the road at Grande Lagoon people were dying. At one time shortly before landfall I thought the roof would come off. I took example from my mother's cat and hid in the back bedroom for a bit. Would I evacuate for a similar storm? Hell no. The time to leave is after the storm when everything is messed up.
6:31 Was that at the Flounders Restaurant, opposite Pensacola Beach, on the pier?
You guys are absolutely bonkers for what you do, but I love your videos. Stay safe on your chases!
Hurricane Ivan destroyed our beautiful beach front condo. We came back months after the storm to see the damage ourselves. The roads were all washed away, the parking lot to our building was completely gone. The in ground pool was propped against the building. And the lobby was so full of sand we had to crouch to get into the stair well. It was incredible to think what occurred during that storm, but now I know!
Awesome video!
I wasn't in Pensacola for Ivan, I never realized how much it changed everything.....I'm in complete shock.
I moved to Pensacola 2 days before Ivan hit. Was definitely a good Welcome to Florida experience!
Welcome to Pensacola ya'll😂 the beach really is beautiful😄
I am watching this because I want to relocate to Florida and I am researching. Can’t imagine living through this spoiled living in the north worse storm we ever had was sandy. Nowhere is perfect. If you have any advice please lmk. Looking into the clearwater area or ft lauderdale on the East coast.
I went through a few storms while I lived in Northwest Florida and every time it amazed me how things ended up working out. There were a lot of "blue roofs" in Pensacola in particular after Ivan for quite some time, basically tarped roofs and I know there were a lot of insurance issues related to whether or not houses were due to storm surge or the rain which many claims took a year or better to resolve. My opinion is to not let hurricanes stop you from moving where you want to move to. Yeah, they can be devastating, but most locals are somewhat used to it and they can even be a community bonding experience, as it was for me. Granted, I didn't lose any property as many have in these storms, so I can't speak from experience on that aspect, though I wouldn't let the risks of hurricanes deter you from moving to this beautiful state. Just watch out for Floridaman.
I was there. Man, it was a disaster.
Pensacola was like went 50 years back.
When Ivan hit, I was living in Mary Esther. We went east to Talahassee and, the following day, made our way back.
All our neighbors followed the storm north into Alabama. It took them 3 days to get home.
I still don't understand why they proceeded to go where the storm was heading.
Mike Theiss : I live in Graceville, Florida. Graceville is three miles south of the Florida/Alabama State line. I'm twenty miles south of Dothan, Alabama; and sixty miles north of Panama City, Florida. Hurricane Ivan almost blew my little town off the map. It blew down power lines. It uprooted massive oak trees and pecan trees. It spawned six tornadoes in Jackson County, where I live. It was rough, but no where near what Pensacola got. I know Warrington is still trying to recover from Ivan the Terrible. Remember what it did to the east bound lane of I-10, over Escambia Bay?
Had to highway around the bridge, I worked in Milton for a few months. Absolutely devastating!
How far inland do these storms normally go? I want to move to Pensacola is why I'm watching this and it looks like they get storms often...yikes
I was 8, my 6’5” grandpa held the front door shut the whole time after the wind busted the knob off the door. My childhood died after this day.
It is a very good documentary film here.
I like my lady friends who like my commentary. :)
who’s watching this in 2019?
Yeah, M. I watch a lot of these old clips.
Had no date on it. I though it was NEW! LOL, I never watch TV so did not know if this was in effect.
KingoftheCatnap same, too bad world governments have destroyed the troposphere and all modern hurricanes are obviously made using #HAARP
I just saw it for the first time.
M • apparently the 2 of us🙄😂😂😂😂
Unpublished video, thanks for sharing, Mike! .. the wind noise from beyond the grave, really scary. Worth the effort for your unique scenes :D
Can't wait to relocate to Pensacola!!! Anything has to be better than Minnesota, the land of ice and snow!!!!
Debbie Davis : I had read that Ivan created waves over 105 feet high out in the Gulf. I was in the Navy and stationed at N.A.S. Pensacola from September, 1978 till I got out in December, 1982. I was in Pensacola, and living in Warrington when Fred hit in September, 1979. It was rough. My wife and I were living in these apartments on Bayou Grande, just across from the Navy base. You could see the front gate of N.A.S. from our front yard. The water almost came into our apartment. The threshold kept it out. My wife and I had to evacuate. Fortunately, she had some old college friends who lived off New Warrington Road. We stayed there for the night. The winds there got up to 100 mph. It was rough. But I know Ivan was a whole lot worse..
@UltimateChase Oh yeah, that was one scary hurricane to ride out and I was in East Hill at the time. We were so scared the roof was going to come off the house. How did you end up alone in a building on the beach? Why on earth didn't you evacuate? I thought they were pretty much forcing people off the beach?
Visited and still visit this area to this day last time about a month ago. The effects of that storm are still visible. Asphalt is still very noticeably seen mixed with sand from Pensacola Beach all the way to Navarre. Loved visiting this area due to the storm and it's destruction... the road ended about 2 miles after the Portofino Island Resort towers. Walk into a world again without humans.
I will never forget that Wednesday night Thursday morning, no sleep
On top of high winds, storm surge, rain, alaways, always these storms spin off tornados & you don't see them coming. Ivan was said to spin off 142 tornados
I remember watching this live, Be Safe Out There
So sad! Navarre is so Beautiful! Drove through there yesterday and it looks like it’s rebuilding pretty good hope everyone was okay and bounced back! ❤
You got to be crazy! I lived in Montgomery during this and it was very unsettling there so I can imagine how bad this was.
Mike, where are you??????? Your the best brother...!!!
You alive to tell the story.Its a scary exsperience I exsperienced a Thypoon in the Philippines.Most powerless moment in my life.This brings back horrifying memories
The crazy thing about Ivan was the amount of tornadoes it produced. I was in Atmore, Al at the time and it was one heck of a storm.
This was such a massive and such an impressive storm I'm really surprised that there really isn't any actual footage of the storm except for so far this video.
My grandma lives in the condo this was filmed at. I've been there and it was so weird seeing all of those buildings/trees on the ground
1:30 pm our lights went out for 8 days.
I lived inland. When we walked out the house I didn’t recognize my own neighborhood.
Does Pensacola get a bunch of hurricanes? Great video
The LIMITED Audio does not do the storm Justice,.....it was 10x and So Horrible,.
Great film and. Baptism.
I've been through Harvey, Irma, and Sandy
Hot sure you should have risked your life for it, Mike, but thank you. As a person who has visited Pensacola for 60 years, I appreciate it. This takes me back to Charlie and Mobile.
awesome videos
I knew what you meant, severeT. I can never bring myself to evacuate even though I live on Pensacola Bay. I wasn't at all crazy about Ivan coming knowing the potential destruction it could cause but was also very excited. I rationalized that Ivan was coming and there was absolutely nothing I can do about it so being the meteorlogical freak that I am, it was the second most exciting night of my life...of course, the New Orleans Saints winning the Superbowl is number one.
WOW, Great Video... YOU have nerves of Steel Superman.
That was the year I was in the Navy on Corry Station and they all put us in a concrete building and it was awesome watching the rain come down totally horizontal but the devastation afterward was totally shocking
I worked night shift at West Florida Hospital. We ended up putting all the patients that was possible in the hallway except for a couple ,one of them would pass that night,rip,I took care of him in the dark, I had a patient pull out blood transfusion and couldn’t find it til the next day, it was complete madness but I felt safe in that building, People sheltered there for weeks afterward. One of my fellow nurses house in Perdido Key was destroyed, he lived in an RV in the parking lot for at least 6 months.
Just imagine if tornadoes stayed on the ground equally as long as a hurricane.
Chitown Mytown official one and only channel Hurricanes frequently spawn tornadoes.
wow i remember being in sacred heart hospital during this. that was some scary sh*t
It was bad in Pensacola but worse in Gulf Shores. The East end of the eye went over my head at 2:15 AM. I'll never forget it because a wave knocked my front door off right after and it shook the beach house so bad the clock fell off the wall and it was 2:15. I should've never rode out this storm down there.
I was drinking straight Vodka to stay sober by the time the eye passed over. I use to love watching hurricanes but Ivan changed how I felt after all the devastation and heartache. Some people lost everything they'd saved their whole lives for and couldn't rebuild because storm surge had never come so far and couldn't afford the insurance. I was on a bus with them touring the area with other former homeowners.
You didn't get to see much in the darkness, but when daylight returned,
you certainly got plenty of damage to take footage of. That was one of
the nastier storms to blow up out of that part of the Gulf, and it hit at
one of the more dangerous coastlines for a storm surge.
i lived through this, had a tornado come through my backyard. went outside to help my dad shut his bed cover on his truck. the wind blew me on my ass. sounds like a train shit was scary as hell. never again will i sit thru a category 4 hurricane.
wow the parts where he was inside a building you could use for a horror movie or a horror video games for sure
I love Pensacola. Its my home. Florida is THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE ON EARTH.
:O When Was This ??? Omq Crazie !!!!!!
What garage is it that he's in?
I also agree with u that Ivan was a very scary storm. Of all the storms I have been through, it was by far the scariest. We decide 2rent a room accross from the uwf hospital in N P'cola. Not a good idea. Though we had decided it would be a good spot over Navarre when Ivan was headed straight 4 N.Orleans. But of course made that last minute turn. We woke up 2the intercom of the hospital since 1side of the hospital was gone from a tornado @4am that I cried myself 2sleep 2with a mattress over us!
I live in Pensacola and we're having a tornado warning right now and that's why I'm watching this #2017
Looks very exciting!
Was this Portafino
Whoa...intense..
😮dangerous