The weather outside was too good to pass up so I decided to do my web surfing and blogging on the patio today. I just need to remind myself to buy some citronella candles to keep the bugs away.

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• East Brent Baptist Church, located at 4801 North Davis Highway, in Pensacola is open for local residents and as a host shelter for travelers. Nurses are available for special needs clients. No advance registration required.

• 42 local residents – 113 out of town
• 1 special needs patient with 2 caregivers

• Blue Springs Baptist Conference Center, 2650 Lakeshore Drive, Marianna.
• Jackson County Ag Center, 3631 U.S. 90, Marianna

• First Baptist Church of Woodville, 9500 Woodville Highway, Tallahassee
• First Church of the Nazarene, 1983 Mahan Drive, Tallahassee
• Saint John’s Episcopal Church, 211 North Monroe Street, Tallahassee

• First Baptist Church of Defuniak Springs, 210 East Live Oak Avenue, Defuniak Springs

• Shalimar Methodist Church, 1 Old Ferry Road, Shalimar

• Milton Community Center, 5689 Byrom St., Milton

• Gulf Power as of 10 a.m. is reporting 3,406 customers without power in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties; 2,765 in Escambia, 641 Santa Rosa.
• In Okaloosa County, 506 people are without power; Bay County, 37; Washington County, 22.
• Crews will begin working to bring the power back on as soon as conditions improve. Lynn Erickson, company spokeswoman, said crews cannot be in bucket trucks until the winds die down below 35 mph, but in areas where the interruptions, don't require crews to work in the air, work is under way to repairs.

• Report power outages to (800) GU-POWER.

• The Pensacola Visitor Information Center is providing an up-to-date list of available lodging and pet kennels. Call (850) 434-1234 during business hours (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

• Pensacola Regional Airport is currently open. Please contact your airline directly for flight availability on both returns and departures.

• ECAT services are suspended Monday for Labor Day.

• ECUA will not have trash pickup today due to Labor Day. Customers scheduled for today pickup will be serviced on Tuesday. Customers scheduled for Tuesday pickup will be serviced on Wednesday.

• UWF and Escambia County schools are scheduled to be open on Tuesday.
• UWF students in affected areas who may be delayed in returning to campus Tuesday should contact the Division of Student Affairs at (850) 474-2214 or e-mail StudentAffairs@uwf.edu.

• Extremely rough surf conditions exist at the beaches. Red flag conditions at both beaches prohibit swimming in the gulf until further notice. People are reminded to stay out of the water.
• Trolley Service on Pensacola Beach has been suspended until further notice.

• FEMA –Hurricane Gustav Evacuee Locator Service, call (800) 588-9822, or visit http://www.fema.gov/
• Emergency contact information for other areas can be found at http://www.escambiaemergency.com/gulfcoastcontacts.asp

• Direct concerns about possible price gouging to 1-866-966-7226.
• Citizen Information line: 471-6600.
• Official Escambia County Websites: http://www.bereadyescambia.com/ and http://www.myescambia.com/.

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• As a precautionary measure, a voluntary evacuation of campers, mobile homes and Navarre Beach was issued at 11 a.m. Sunday morning.

• The citizen information line is activated until further notice. The number is 983- INFO/4636 or (800) 225-7421. Call volume has been high throughout the day.

• Emergency management staff will monitor river levels, but no flooding is expected.
• Standing water on Gulf Boulevard on Navarre Beach near South Carolina Street has been reported.
• The eastern section of Madura Road in Tiger Point and the adjacent cul-de-sacs. The stormwater lift station has been turned off until the storm surge subsides.
• Minor damage was reported from a possible tornado on Ceylon Drive in Midway.
• A family needed assistance leaving their home on Andrew Jackson Drive in Floridatown due to storm surge.
• Minor beach erosion has been reported at Navarre Beach.

• At the Red Cross shelter at the Milton Community Center, 5629 Byrom St., there were 110 people, including nine staffers, 60 Santa Rosa residents and 34 evacuees.
• As of Sunday night, 36 rooms of 576 hotel rooms in Santa Rosa are estimated to be unoccupied. Evacuees represent an estimated 95 percent of that occupancy.
• Evacuees seeking accommodations can visit www.floridabeachestorivers.com

• FEMA –Hurricane Gustav Evacuee Locator Service; call (800) 588-9822 or visit www.fema.gov.

• Escambia River Electric Cooperative, Inc. is experiencing very few scattered outages in northern Escambia and Santa Rosa counties in Florida. Crews have been able to quickly restore the isolated outages. EREC will continue to monitor the storm closely and respond accordingly

• The City of Gulf Breeze has established an e-mail list to provide community and emergency information to residents.
  
  
  • Sign up at the City’s website: www.cityofgulfbreeze.com and follow the link under “Emails from the City” on the front page.

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• FOX 10 news reports 3 people being hit by lightening.


• WEAR 3 news reports 4 people being hit by lightening.


• PNJ.com reports 4 people being shocked and 6 more people being treated for other injuries

As of this posting, the Blue Angels Air Show was to be rescheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, July 13.

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