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Weather history: 40th anniversary of Hurricane Frederic
Posted on 9/12/19 at 7:36 pm
Posted on 9/12/19 at 7:36 pm
Hurricane Frederic
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Frederic moved northwestward, intensifying to its peak intensity in the Gulf of Mexico with winds of 130 mph (210 km/h) on September 12, shortly before making landfall at Dauphin Island, Alabama just below the state line between Alabama and Mississippi.
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Damage estimates vary due to inadequate reporting of private insurance claims as well as lack of hard data on uninsured damage; Frederic is believed to have inflicted $5 million (1979 USD) in both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with an additional $1.7 billion in damage on the mainland United States. FEMA, which had been established only three months before Frederic hit, was the focal point for nearly $250 million in federal aid for recovery, $188 million of which went to Alabama (1979 USD). In southern Alabama, the landscape was changed for years, with thousands of tall pine trees tilted and leaning northwest.
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Posted on 9/12/19 at 7:45 pm to East Coast Band
I remember it. Meant for a wild time at middle school. As Fredrick approached up through central Alabama, they made us go to the gym for safety for 3.5 hours. Then they let us go home on the school busses as if nothing happened.
Posted on 9/12/19 at 7:53 pm to Fat Fingers
My old man worked some of the cleanup of Frederic. That storm absolutely wrecked Mobile.
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:17 pm to East Coast Band
That’s a large sumbitch
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:23 pm to East Coast Band
Lived in Mobile at that time. No power for weeks, oak trees down in our yard(first time seeing a bow saw in action), had a creek nearby to bathe in. Not sure my kids now could deal with the no power, no internet, etc now 
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:28 pm to East Coast Band
I was stationed at Keesler AFB, Ms. Pretty good storm but we were on the pussy side. Mobile and east of it caught hell. Without power for a couple of days, no big deal. I think Camille taught the Miss./Ala. gulf coast a lesson back in 69.
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:37 pm to East Coast Band
It's kind of amazing Frederic is still the benchmark for Mobile. A lot of near misses over the years.
My mom still talks about it. She rode it out in a little house in SW Mobile County.
My mom still talks about it. She rode it out in a little house in SW Mobile County.
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:41 pm to East Coast Band
My wife (fiance at the time) is from Mobile. She rode out the storm at home with her family. They had two telephone lines running into the house - one downstairs and a children's line upstairs. The downstairs line was out but the upstairs line continued to function. I talked to her on the telephone as Frederick was devastating Mobile.
Posted on 9/12/19 at 8:43 pm to East Coast Band
That storm did a number on the western end of Santa Rosa Island on the road out to Fort Pickens from P’cola Beach. Not much damage to homes on the eastern end, but sand dunes 15 to 20 feet high with scrub oak, magnolias, and rosemary just got flattened by storm surge and the road was cut.
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