PENSACOLA, Fla.—In the wake of Hurricane Isaias, the term “weekend warrior” appears to have taken on a deeper meaning.
The hurricane landed on Florida’s panhandle after sunset on Friday, Oct. 9. By the end of the Columbus Day weekend, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, an enormous amount of recovery work was already complete.
Roughly 95 percent of the nearly 500,000 registered customers who lost power in Florida during the storm had their power restored. Thousands of miles of roadways were cleared, and a washed-out bridge was rebuilt.
Pallets upon pallets of emergency supplies, as well as innumerable hot meals, have been distributed, hundreds of response missions have been conducted, and the death toll of six people, including two in Alabama, has been accounted for….