Photo Album: Hurricane Frances, 3 - 5 September 2004.
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Figure 1. Satellite image of Hurricane Frances, 5 September 2004, when the storm's center was 80 mi. ESE of Tampa, and about 25 miles north of Archbold. Photo courtesy of NOAA, National Weather Service.

Figure 2. A total of 61 people stayed at Archbold during the storm, using the general lab, library reading room, labs, offices, and dormitories. This included 50+ employees and their families, and several out-of-state linesmen contracted by Glades Electric Coop. Digital photo by Reed Bowman, 5 September 2004.

Figure 3. Matresses set up in the General Lab for the line crews from Georgia and Alabama that were assisting Glades Electric Coop. in the post-hurricane clean up. Digital photo by Reed Bowman, 4 September 2004.

Figure 4. Food and supplies in the Bird Lab, Digital photo by Reed Bowman, 4 September 2004.

Figure 5. The west doors of the Entomology Lab are secure with the bronze door down from its attic berth. Five units of the Main Building have identical overhead doors for east and west openings, and all east doors are operable and two west doors are operable. Digital photo by Nancy Deyrup, 9 September 2004.
 

Figure 6. Plywood storm shutter made for the Library west doors, post-Frances, pre-Ivan. A similar shutter will be made for the west doors of the Vertebrate and Bird labs. All the other west doors can be secured with the overhead bronze doors. Digital photo by Nancy Deyrup, 10 September 2004.

Figure 7. Replacing shingles blown off the Annex roof by Frances. Digital photo by Nancy Deyrup, 10 September 2004.

Figure 8. A post-hurricane pot-luck dinner for families that still did not have power and/or Station residents. Hilary Swain, Executive Director is on the far left, and at her right is Frances Hufty, Chairman of the Trustees of Archbold Expeditions. Digital photo by Reed Bowman, 5 September 2004.

Figure 9. High water at Lake Annie; Hurricane Frances added more rainfall after an exceptionally high August rainfall (see the August 2004 high-water page). The Lake Annie dock is under about 4 inches of water. On the right, only the weather instruments at the end of the dock and the water level gauge (discontinued) are visible. The active water level gauge is on the left, barely visible. Normal lake levels fluctuate between 9 and 11 feet on the gauge, but on 6 September the level is at 12.2. On 9 September the level is 12.8. The lake continues to rise with storm runoff and continued rain. Digital photo by Nancy Deyrup, 6 September 2004.

Figure 10. Oak limbs litter the lawn around Quercus (1) Cottage. Digital photo by Nancy Deyrup, 6 September 2004.

Figure 11. The dining room oak lost another large limb in Hurricane Frances. This tree was a sapling when it was planted in 1935, and during the last 5-10 years, it has been loosing limbs in major wind events. Digital photo by Nancy Deyrup, 6 September 2004.

Figure 12. No hurricane report is complete without an image of palm trees in the wind. Here is a clump of Everglades palms (Acoelorrhaphe wrightii) at Fred Lohrer's front yard (Lake Placid) on the morning of 5 September 2004 when the storm was due north and the winds were gusting from the west at perhaps 50 mph. Digital photo by Fred Lohrer.