| A message from Santa Claus adorns wood boards placed on windows at K. Kringle's Christmas and Holiday Shoppe in St. Pete Beach, Fl., on Sept. 12, 2004. |
Angie Bell, an employee at the USS Alabama Memorial in Mobile, Ala., rolls a cart onto the World War II-vintage battleship in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Ivan on Sept. 14, 2004. Several museum employees and their families sheltered themselves in the ship.
| In Florida and Alabama Hurricane Ivan hits |
| Florida was smashed by several hurricanes in 2004. These photos were made as Hurricane Ivan approached and afterward. | ![]() |
| Above, Sherri Sande and her sons, John and Jake, among soggy belongings after Hurricane Ivan struck in Pensacola, Fl. Left, a neighborhood in Pensacola. |

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