I highly appreciate your support and your comments. Hurricane Frederic intensity: 130mph 943mb.Īs always ladies and gentleman. The storm caused over $1.77 billion dollars in damage making it The Atlantic basin’s costliest tropical cyclone on record. When Hurricane Frederic struck the Gulf Coast on September 12, 1979, the storm dramatically altered the landscape that Walter and Bessie Bellingrath had. Storm surge was over 15 feet across the beaches and covering entire streets across the Alabama coast line. The hurricane makes landfall on Septemas a Category 4 Hurricane. Then the hurricane begins to move north into Alabama. The cyclone begins to rapidly intensify to a Category 4 Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Days later after the storm moves north away from Cuba. Pressure 943mb.įrederic formed on August 29 of the coast of Africa moving westward into the Lesser Antilles Puerto Rico Dominican Republic and Cuba. Hurricane Frederic was a Category 4 Hurricane with winds over 130mph. Storm w measuring up to 4.6 m above the mean high water level washed over. All of this, in part due to Hurricane Frederic’s destruction.Hurricane Frederic was an intense and powerful tropical cyclone that caused over severe devastation across the gulf coast in Alabama on September 1979. Hurricane Frederic crossed the western end of Dauphin Island on 12 September 1979. Now the colossal Crystal Tower Condos stands across the street. When Hurricane Ivan hit in 2004, the Edgewater stood with Tropical Winds and Surfside. Frederic wiped the slate clean in 1979, leaving nothing but sand where the restaurant was. It’s all now towering condos.īefore Frederic, it was just a few beach homes and a restaurant called The Crimson Tiki. 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. Some properties were severely damaged while others took a beating- Look! The Pink Pony stood up to Ivan in 2004! That’s much higher than we were before.įrederic made Gulf Shores build smarter but 25 years later Hurricane Ivan would hit a much-more developed Gulf Shores- Inflicting costly damage through wind and storm surge, with so many more people and buildings impacted. Twenty-one days later, there it was, just sitting in the air, 16 foot, one inch above sea level, now. Vincent Murphy: They drove the pilings 35 feet into the sand, then came back up and just started building up. The Pink Pony is gone, but it was rebuilt right after Frederic. The waterslide park- before Frederic and then after Frederic is damaged, never to be rebuilt. These are combined with Franks (1984) analysis of Frederics core and Powells (1982) surface wind analysis to analyze Frederics three-dimensional low-level structure between the storm center and a radius of 10 deg. Bob Grip: What about some of the familiar tourist areas, let’s say the State Resort, Gulf Shores State Resort? The problem there, Bob, is you can’t get to it. and buoy data from hurricane Frederic (1979) are composited over a 40 hr period. Gulf Shores beach is a ninety-five percent loss. At first glance, the structure appeared to have weathered the storm. Some buildings still standing were merely shells. On September 29, another ferocious hurricane of similar intensity to the August storm occurred, reaching the Louisiana coast. 275 people lost their lives from a combination of high water and strong winds. Mel Showers: Ninety-five percent of the structures on the beach received some damage or were destroyed. hurricane, storm tides 12 feet above normal flooded the business district to a depth of six feet. In September of 1979, it was an immediate disaster right after Frederic. A little more to the east, the Rolling Tides hotel went out with the tide. In comes Frederic, out goes building, after building. Beachside vacation homes and motels sit along the beach. You don’t see high-rises, you see cottages amongst sand dunes in what was to become the City of Gulf Shores. Description: 1979 - Persons displaced by Hurricane Frederic are rehoused by the US Army Corps of Engineers, which continues cleanup efforts in Mobile. Let’s go back in time, before Hurricane Frederic, to a quieter Gulf Shores. You know the Giant Shark is a landmark, the Hangout Music Festival, a landmark and of course the entrance to the beaches. Highway 59 and Beach Boulevard, a very active part of the city. And now you start thinking more about traffic. When you think of Gulf Shores, you think of beaches.
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