NBC Nightly News - Hurricane Opal - 1995-10-05
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[0:22] north of Johnson Creek Boulevard.
[0:26] Hurricane Opal is soaking the southeast
[0:28] after tearing up the Florida panhandle.
[0:30] Death and almost $2 billion in damage.
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[0:54] Nightly News with Tom Bro.
[0:56] Good evening. It wasn't quite a sucker
[0:58] punch, but when Hurricane Opal roared
[1:00] ashore along the Florida panhandle
[1:02] during the night, most residents had
[1:04] cleared out just hours before, and it's
[1:06] a good thing this was a powerful,
[1:08] fast-moving hurricane with terrifying
[1:10] winds and high seas. We have two reports
[1:13] tonight, beginning with NBC's Robert
[1:14] Hager at ground zero.
[1:18] This is just some of the estimated $1.8
[1:21] billion worth of damage the insurance
[1:24] industry estimates Hurricane Opel
[1:26] caused. These vacation homes are on
[1:28] Pensacola Beach, Florida. And this one
[1:31] picked up and then deposited 1,000 ft
[1:33] offshore by the storm surge is from
[1:35] Navar Beach. These garden apartments,
[1:38] their fronts ripped off to leave