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Hurricane Ivan still haunts Escambia, Santa Rosa counties after 20 years.
Homes blown away, washed away in Grande Lagoon where people drowned in their well-manicured yards and in their beautiful waterside homes. A chunk of the Escambia Bay Bridge was ripped away, leaving a large 18-wheeler cut in half, its front side in the murky, storm-stirred water, the other dangling from the sawed-off bridge. The driver would die in the water after falling into the bay with the truck’s cab on the raging night on which tragedy and destruction roared through Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
It was the night of Hurricane Ivan, Sept. 16, 2004, and the storm took lives, scarred lives and challenged all in the community, no matter neighborhood or zip code.