Dennis Comes Ashore
ALABAMA
Robin Paradis of Robertsdale, Ala., carries some supplies into Daphne East Elementary School, Sunday, July 10, 2005, in Daphne, Ala, as Hurricane Dennis nears the Gulf Coast. Paradis and her mother were transfered to the shelter from one in Foley, Ala., along with 15 others because of her mother's special medical needs.FLORIDA
A boat moored to a pier the Choctawhatchee Bay in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. sinks as Hurricane Dennis moves ashore Sunday, July 10, 2005.FLORIDA
Dung Mi and his daughter, Dao Mi, carry blankets and pillows into a shelter in Pensacola, Fla., as they take cover from Hurricane Dennis Sunday, July, 10, 2005.FLORIDA
Debris and rain blow across a deserted Highway 98 in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., as Hurricane Dannis moves through the area Sunday, July 10, 2005.FLORIDA
The backyard of a home in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on the Choctawhatchee Bay, is seen Sunday, July 10, 2005. After making landfall near Pensacola, Florida, Hurricane Dennis has now weakened to a Category 2 storm.FLORIDA
As Hurricane Dennis approaches the Gulf Coas,t contractor Richard Kurt works to secure a building on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Sunday, July 10, 2005.FLORIDA
Waves pound Pensacola Beach, in Pensacola, Fla., Sunday, July 10, 2005. Hurricane Dennis closed in on the Gulf Coast on Sunday with battering waves and high wind after strengthening into a dangerous storm.FLORIDA
An unidentified man attempts to capture video as Hurricane Dennis hits Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Sunday, July 10, 2005.FLORIDA
Richard Newcome talks to a neighbor on his cell phone as he surveys the high water from Hurricane Dennis in Gulf Breeze, Fla. Sunday, July 10, 2005. Newcome is checking a home for friends who evacuated the area.FLORIDA
High waves crash over the pier in Panama City Beach, Fla. Sunday, July 10, 2005 as the eye of Hurricane Dennis makes landfall.ALABAMA
The Original Oyster House restaurant is boarded up with the message "Everbody Pray!!" Sunday, July 10, 2005, in Spanish Fort, Ala., as Hurricane Dennis approaches the Gulf Coast.FLORIDA
As Hurricane Dennis approaches the Gulf Coast, contractor Jim Bean works to secure a building on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Sunday, July 10, 2005.FLORIDA
Angela Kerry, 70, left, and her husband, Joe Kerry, 69, right, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., read as the rest of their family, son Mike Kerry (lying down),2 daughter-in-law, Laura (background left), and the couple's two children, Nicole, 9 and Jacklyn, 11, rest in a hurricane shelter set up at the Pensacola Civic Center, Sunday, July 10, 2005, in Pensacola, Fla. Angela and Joe's home in Pensacola Beach was destroyed during Hurricane Ivan in September 2004. "We're running out of houses", joked Joe.ALABAMA
Claudia Andrews removes belongings from her boat in the Sundowner Mariana in Mobile, Ala., Sunday, July 10, 2005. Andrews has lived aboard her 43-foot boat, the Allegra, Grey for eight years but decided to relocate before Hurricane Dennis makes landfall later in the day.FLORIDA
Escambia County officer guards the Bob Sikes Bridge in his patrol car until the Florida Department of Transportation inspects the bridge after Hurricane Dennis came ashore near Gulf Breeze, Fla. Sunday, July 10, 2005.ALABAMA
Mary Wilson holds her two-week-old grandson, David Keagan Wilson, Sunday, July 10, 1005, at Drury Inn and Suites in Montgomery, Ala., while they wait for their hotel room to be prepared. The Wilsons, a family of 14, fled Pensacola, Fla,. Sunday morning because of Hurricane Dennis. Wilson said they stayed through Hurricane Ivan last year but left this year because of the baby.FLORIDA
Doug Kieslng, a freelance photographer from Minnesota, takes video of the crashing waves from a small pier by the breakwall at Wayside Park in Gulf Breeze, Fla., Sunday, July 10, 2005.MISSISSIPPI
A lone car drives past casinos in Biloxi, Miss., on Sunday, July 10, 2005, as the eastern edge of Hurricane Dennis passes through the area. A curfew went into effect in Harrison County at noon, turning cities into virtual ghost towns. The casinos were ordered closed Saturday night.FLORIDA
National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield, right, shows Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a radar image depicting Hurricane Dennis positioned well inland Sunday, July 10, 2005, at the hurricane center in Miami.Click here to see more storm photos