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PANAMA CITY BEACH — For 30 years, St. Andrews State Park has relied on its "friends." A citizen support organization, the 501(c)3 nonprofit group "Friends of St. Andrews State Park" formed in 1991. Ed and Lisa Keppner were the original organizers; both biologists, they did a survey of plants in the park. Today, the Native Plant Nursery at the park still helps to maintain the landscaping needs. Anne Ake became part of the organization in 1993 when she was serving on the board of the Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida (now known as the Panama City Center for the Arts). She spoke with ...

Family memories with Fay Hampson... My grandfather loved fishing, but I never had him down as a hunting or shooting man. Imagine my surprise when, a few months ago, my brother told me that grandad had told him he'd had a gun to "shoot the 'awks". Now my grandfather's name was Herbert Hampson, but as a true son of Denbighshire and the Shropshire borders, he took little notice of the initial "aitch" and often made me laugh by telling me he signed his name "Apostrophe dot Apostrophe ampson!" The penny dropped! But what hawks did he shoot and why? My brother and I were looking at the photog...

10 minutes of 150-mile-an-hour wind with gusts to 175 can destroy everything. exactly where the eye goes across. remember, this is 15 miles across. where is it going? we can now see where it's going. moving in this direction. the pattern is very clear. it has not deviated in any way. it's moving to the north, northeast. what does that mean? that means -- this is panama city beach, here. panama city beach, it looks like, will be on the left side of the storm. part of the eye wall, it might. see this large area of rain? this is extraordinarily strong rain, with wins at about a category to trend ...

Reached where we're located. >> shepard: show people why that is. on camera four. there you go. here's why that is. here's the storm, right? here's panama city. the storm is here. where is the storm? it's come here. here's where panama city beach is, over here. this is the circulation, right? so everything over here is getting 140, 150 miles an hour winds. pushing enormous waves in apalachicola and port st. joe. huge storm surge. on the back side, the winds are like this. so here on panama city beach, the winds have come this way as the storm reached shore. you don't get a storm surge. you get...

Just a couple of people on the sand, making their way possibly to their hotel. you always have situations like this, where you have people who are just very curious and they want to come out here. but the good news, brianna, like i said, no one in the water. but this is just the beginning, because what we're really expecting is heavier rain, stronger winds. i would say roughly another five hours from now. and as we speak, we can feel at least one of those bands coming in on us, because now it's starting to come down. but, again, we're really expecting the heavy stuff roughly another six hours ...