Thursday, February 09, 2006
Five Flags Inn & Hurricane Ivan
who wonder if
Five Flags Inn
survived Hurricane Ivan
I would
say it did...
We've talked about our favorite place to stay in Pensacola, Florida. A little family owned motel on the beach where Baker makes warm coffee in the morning and you make new friends. We meet people who have been vacationing every year for the last twenty years or more.
Five Flags Inn took in evacuees and allowed pets for the duration of the last hurricane. And today we find people searching Mandarin for Five Flags Inn. They are wondering whether it survived Hurricane Ivan. We wondered too and found a photo in the Pensacola News Journal photo gallery. Today I called to see if there was a recording 
but the phone lines are still down in the area so you get only one ring, the same as when I call my sister's home. Then the call just stops. No recording. And so,
for those who wonder if Five Flags Inn survived Hurricane Ivan I would say it did. It's the blue structure in the foreground.
Lisa lost everything and asked for blankets for Christmas to keep little Alyssa warm. They sleep in a trailer together in a twin bed. She hadn't been through a hurricane, most hadn't. But she put all of the clothes and kids toys on top of the beds before they evacuated. The water came in higher than the beds and all was lost. Like a lot of people, they didn't have insurance... they abandoned the little home.
The Five Flags Inn web site is gone, but we still link. Maybe someday...in the meantime, the Pensacola Visitor's Center has some interesting Web Cam Pictures and a couple of live web cams.
