Twister Closed Popular State Park While Cleanup Continues
St. Andrew State Park is closed for the next couple of weeks while crews clean up from Hurricane Ivan.
The tornado which flattened parts of the North Lagoon area in Panama City Beach first touched down in the state park. (Click the
St. Andrews officially opened today. So I went and took a tour of it.
OH MY GOSH....it's unreal. The lagoon area doesn't even look the same anymore. Huge trees that were nice shade trees are not there anymore or it's just a stick standing there. It looks like it started at the first bath house by the boat ramp and went through the lagoon section, unto the playground and then out into the water and then hit Hamiltons resturant and so on.
It just made me sick to my stomach to see it. Alot of the water lines/electric were ripped up too. I guess on a plus note, we will have alot of firewood when we camp there in Oct.
Sharon
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