Image via Wikipedia | Current mood:  cheerful Category: Life The night Hurricane Frederic changed my life! by Floyd Clifton Wooley Introduction September 12, 1979 Changed my life forever. It changed the lives of most everyone I knew at the time and even though I haven't seen many of those people in years and some I would never have the chance to know they still are on my mind each time a storm with the potential to cause the kind of life altering events in one's life as this one storm most certainly caused. This story only covers a few individuals of course myself, my parents Floyd E. and Carol W. Wooley our employees who were more than employees to my parents and to me as a boy growing up on Mobile Bay both on Hollinger's Island and on Battleship Parkway where as a child of 13 I had grown to be friends and had spent many a fine day fishing with behind one of our Exxon convenience stores as a child and had worked side by side with and in one case had traveled to Chicago with the prior summer along with my father to bring back what would become an important part of my dad's ability to keep our family and crew busy after the storm. The devastation caused the night of the 12th and the morning of the 13th prior to sunrise boggles the imagination even today although we have had many such storms make landfall near our area since such as Ivan in 2004 and of course Katrina in 2005. I hope you enjoy some of the events of that night and possibly one day I can invite you to read more of the story(s) in some form of publication. |
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