Has it really been 43 years since Hurricane Fredrick?

[SandyShooter]

A few pictures of downtown Gulf Shores a few days after Freddy came to town

 

[texkev]

WOW.
Interesting from about the same time, pulled this image I scanned in some time ago - someone from my family had these photos, from the massive 1979 Tornado that hit Wichita Falls. We had just moved from there. Had to go back, a family affected, dad's friends. I still recall as a kid, when we drove back into town to see family for holidays, the massive field of mesquite trees that stayed it seemed forever stripped from it as it crossed the highway there, where many people died trying to take that highway to get away from it, it ended up sideswiping them.

 

[Drcrimson]

I remember going through gulf shores as a 10 year old or so after that hurricane hit. The devastation was unlike anything I had seen.

 

[BUBBQ]

Hoping someone has early photos of a restaurant located on West Beach named the Crimson Tiki, before Fredrick took it away.

 

[SandyShooter]

Hoping someone has early photos of a restaurant located on West Beach named the Crimson Tiki, before Fredrick took it away.

I’m sorry I don’t recall the Crimson Tiki.

 

[SandyShooter]

At the time of Fredrick I was a young reserve deputy with the S.O. I was involved it the evacuation of Gulf Shores that day and one of the last to leave (I imagine some others may have left after the other deputy and I left the check point on the north side of ICW bridge) and one the first back in the next day for an R&R mission with the ALA Natl Guard.
I wish I had carried a camera the first week or so after landfall but it didn’t cross my mind to document what I was seeing.
Everyone has stories about the terror of the night with roofs going, walls imploding, trees coming through the house. I don’t.
I got home, tended to my ss Model 66, cleaned and treated my leather gear to neutralize the salt water and wind driven sand, took a hot shower and pulled a mattress into the hallway of the little 2 bedroom house I lived in at the time and slept the sleep of the exhausted

 

[SandyShooter]