In three weeks: Hurricane Ivan Before and After Project

[tallywx]

Wanted to post this now before many of you run off for the winter so that you can check back in a few weeks.

In July of 2003, I had the pleasure of conducting extensive research along the Florida coastline from the FL/AL border eastward to Cape San Blas. I was researching coastal dune morphology and development along this stretch of coast. For this reason, I took a total of 973 photos of the beach, dunes, and houses in every single town between Perdido Key and Cape San Blas. That includes photos from Perdido Key, Perdido Key National Seashore Park, Ft. Pickens Nat'l Seashore Park, Pensacola Beach, Santa Rosa National Seashore Park, Navarre Beach, Ft. Walton Beach, Henderson Beach State Park, Destin, Topsail Hill State Preserve, Dune Allen Beach, Watercolor, Blue Mountain Beach, Seaside, Grayton Beach, Deer Lake State Park, Panama City Beach, and Cape San Blas.

With the utter destruction that Ivan wrought along this same stretch of coast to both beach and infrastructure, I see this as the perfect opportunity to retrace my steps. So my follow-up project will be this: to take photographs at the exact same locations and camera angles as I did in July 2003. The photos will be compiled on a webpage and juxtaposed side-by-side.

I believe this presentation will provide a powerful and poignant illustration of the awesome wrath of Mother Nature and how various development styles and locations influenced the extent of destruction.

I will update this thread as the project proceeds, and a separate thread will be posted once the website is up and running. I plan on conducting field work during the week of Dec. 13-17, with editing and web design after that. The completed website should be up before the New Year.

Hope you all enjoy.

[Wnghs2007]

Thanks for the info