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Destin, Florida. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Okaloosa. Associated ZIP codes: 32540, 32541.
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Nearly 90 first responders from Miami-Dade and Broward counties helped areas hit by Isaias, which made landfall near Destin Friday night as a Category 2 storm.
Isaias made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane in the city of Destin in the Florida Panhandle on Friday evening. It has since weakened into a post-tropical c...
Isaias has been blamed for four deaths while it downed trees and power lines across the Florida Panhandle after it made landfall near Destin on Friday night.
Hurricane Isaias made landfall as a Category 2 storm near Destin, Florida, before weakening as it moved north and dumped rain across Alabama, forecasters said.
Although the strongest winds were in the panhandle of Florida when Hurricane Isaias came ashore at about 8:30 in Destin, Florida, the heaviest drains extende...
More than 600,000 customers are without power after Isaias made landfall as a hurricane on the northern Gulf Coast.
The storm weakened overnight after making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane near Destin, Florida.
The storm weakened overnight after making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane near Destin, Florida.
Isaias hit Destin, Florida, on Friday evening and clocked in at just 6mph under a Category 3 hurricane.
Hurricane Isaias made landfall as a dangerous Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds about 9:30 p.m. Friday near Destin in the Florida Panhandle, the National H...
Slight weakening may not significantly reduce dangerous winds and life-threatening storm surge
WATCH LIVE: Hurricane Isaias makes landfall near Destin, Florida | Tracking severe weather Max winds reached 105 mph, making the storm a Category 2.
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The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
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Destin is in Okaloosa County, Florida.
Region: North Florida
32540, 32541
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The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
Destin is named for the fishing captain who settled it. Leonard Destin (1813–1884) came from New London, Connecticut, to the shore of East Pass, where Choctawhatchee Bay meets the Gulf of Mexico. Sources give different dates for his arrival, from the 1830s to between 1845 and 1850. He and his wife, Martha McCullum Destin, built a fishing business that employed young men from the area, and many of those workers became the community's first settlers; according to the Destin History and Fishing Museum, 16 founding families still live in the area. Destin built a New England colonial-style home on the site later known as the Moreno Point military reservation, and he and his descendants fished these waters for generations.
The pass that defines Destin today was born in a storm. In 1929, according to the museum's director, a storm pushed Choctawhatchee Bay about eight feet above normal. To relieve the flooding, four local men, O. T. Melvin, Dewey Destin Sr., Arn Strickland and Dolf Weekly, dug a trench across the sand with shovels and boat oars, and within a couple of days the rushing water had widened it to about 500 feet. The new pass closed off the old one to the east, turned the mostly fresh bay salty and gave Destin's fishing boats a direct route to the Gulf. Some local accounts date the event to 1926. For much of its history Destin was a small, isolated fishing village. Its first condominiums went up in the 1970s, the city incorporated in 1984, and it has grown rapidly since, while still calling itself "the World's Luckiest Fishing Village." Sources Wikipedia: Destin, Florida Emerald Coast Magazine: Take a Step into the Past (Destin History and Fishing Museum) Get the Coast: Four men, shovels and a storm: the accidental birth of Destin's East Pass (citing Vivienne Williams, Destin History and Fishing Museum)
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