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BORN: May 18, 1948, Pensacola, Fla. EDUCATION: U of South Alabama, B.S., 1974; Boston U, M.B.A., 1990 FAMILY: Wife, Maureen; one child RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Marines, 1967-70 OCCUPATION: Investment broker; financial planner POLITICAL CAREER: Democratic nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 85085, Mobile...
...grass-roots types who supported me," says first-term Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough. As in many other parts of the state, Dole has a secure grip on the party machinery, but that may not be enough. "The hard-core party people here support Dole," says Dr. Frank Biasco of Pensacola, a Republican state committeeman from Escambia County. "The ranking party officials are predominantly for Dole. But as far as I can tell the rest of the delegates are predominantly for Buchanan...
...town that didn't was Navarre Beach, Florida, a tourist village of about 3,000, 20 miles east of Pensacola. Where once pristine 25-ft. dunes rose, there is now a featureless expanse of sand that has swallowed up living rooms, swimming pools, roads and tractor trailers. Seventy-five percent of Navarre Beach's homes were destroyed, swamped by the 15-ft. tidal surge or crushed by the battering of 30-ft. waves. Some structures were reduced to piles of indistinguishable rubble; others simply disappeared, leaving only stubby supports to show where a house once stood. Several homes were lifted...
More than 100,000 people fled inland to avoid Opal, although many waited too long. Lorraine Brown, a bartender and 22-year resident of Pensacola Beach, had intended to stay close by. When she was finally persuaded to leave, she found herself trapped in the massive gridlock that formed along woefully inadequate evacuation routes. "I sat in traffic for hours and then gave up," says Brown. She finally drove off the highway and rode out the storm, stuck with her dog in a parking lot. Many who did get off the narrow barrier islands drove for hours--some...
...This is as bad as any hurricane can get," S.C. Gwynne reports from Navarre Beach, a barrier island about 20 miles east of Pensacola in the area that bore the full force of Hurricane Opal. "There are chunks of asphalt everywhere, a car 200 yards offshore, huge tower cranes twisted like toys, upside-down semi rigs just lying in the sand. Whole buildings are either destroyed and atomized into chunks no bigger than a yard across. In one case, a house had been taken up and thrown 50 yards into the air." Some residents are now returning to the remains...