We had a huge thunderstorm around August 11, 2011. I remember it was a Thursday and I was getting ready to watch some preseason football game and my Directv went out. I checked the online radar to see how bad it was and saw a cell right over TV. The cell never moved for two solid hours, the rain came down in buckets without letting up. Finally the storm moved slowly to the west.
The next morning I was playing the executive course Sand Hill at Buena Vista and St. Charles for the first time. When we got to the course at 9am, all you could see what tees and greens, eveything else was under water. My neighbor had played the course before, so he could tell me what the hole was really like, but we played every hole as a water hole. When we finished the round the starter said we were lucky, the course is closed. The next day I read in the Sun that about a half dozen executive courses were closed until Tuesday.
I don't remember any homes flooding, but Bonifay Golf Course was due to open soon and it was pushed back to late November. Only Destin and Ft. Walton nines then opened and Pensacola nine was pushed back another nine months to late 2012 because they said it had received extensive damage from the storm.
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