NBC Nightly News - Hurricane Opal - 1995-10-05

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[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

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