☔12 YEARS AGO - Heavy rain was setting up across the area, which would lead to the Historic April 2014 Flash Flood. Widespread flooding cut roads in half and closed part of I-10.
☔2-Day Pensacola Rain Record: 20.47" (estimated due to power outage)
🖱️https://t.co/v4AVztIJrA
🌀20 Years Ago - Heading toward the Gulf Coast was Hurricane #Dennis...the first major hurricane of the active 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
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🌪️9 YEARS AGO - An EF-3 tornado with winds of 155 mph moved across Pensacola, FL. The tornado quickly intensified after it crossed over I-10 and neared Escambia Bay on its 8-mile path.
💻 Local Webpage: https://t.co/Ez17gVooKY
Sun rising over the Gulf Coast this morning unveils a blanket of fresh snowfall from southeast Texas to the eastern Carolinas. 🛰️☃️
For a list of snowfall and ice reports visit our latest Storm Summary: https://t.co/fql3z6p1st
MIRACLE: Former #NFL star Peyton Hillis says “It is 100 percent a miracle” no one died in swimming accident where he saved his son and niece from a rip current at a Florida beach.
Hillis said, via “@ProFootballTalk that the “scariest point” in the rescue happened “when I’m swimming to my son and I have to pass by him because my niece is in more danger.”
He said that he knew he had “to pass him up to get to Camille first . . . because, you know, if I didn’t then there’s no way she would’ve made it.”
Hillis, 37, got back to the shore with his son and niece, but then Hillis lost consciousness and experienced lung and kidney failure. He was airlifted to a hospital and placed on a ventilator.
Roughly 10 days later, he regained consciousness. He then spent two weeks in the intensive care unit.
A HERO, @thepeytonhillis 🙏
(Via @ProFootballTalk and the @nypost)
Every time I see this shot from Bubba in the 2012 Masters it gets better. 50 yards of hook, with a wedge! Being capable of hitting the shot is one thing but under the pressure of winning a green jacket is something else! 🤯
@bubbawatson
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In his first public comments following a multiweek hospital stay in the wake of a swimming incident off Pensacola's coast, former NFL player Peyton Hillis thanked the staff at Baptist Hospital and said he expects to make a "100% recovery." https://t.co/mqo0FA29tl