Hurricane Dennis Passes Over
Hurricane Dennis made landfall near Pensacola Beach on Sunday 10th July as a Category 3 storm. The main problems brought by Dennis appear to be flooding rather than structural damage. Around 1.8 million people were evacuated, from the Florida Keys and along the Gulf Coast, thousands of others took to hurricane shelters.
Several regions experienced power outages for a length of time, Progress Energy worked through the night to restore power to about 73,000 customers in the Tampa Bay area, and around 1,000 customers of KUA in Central Florida lost power for a while. Dennis is now moving over the States as a tropical depression. In it's wake another tropical depression has formed in the Atlantic. July 5th was the earliest date on record for the fourth named storm to have formed in the atlantic basin and now we watch the 5th!
Posted on 11 July 2005
