RESIDENTS AWAIT MAYOR'S EVACUATION DECISION
9:00 AM, Wed. Morning, October 4, 1995
PENSACOLA BEACH TRIBUNE
PENSACOLA BEACH- Hurricane Olivia has now grown to a category-four hurricane and is headed toward the Pensacola area. Remaining Pensacola Beach residents and tourists are waiting for the new mayor to choose between a forced evacuation and letting people decide for themselves.
Many Pensacola Beach residents are already evacuating on their own, fearing they will be stuck on the highway if they don't leave now.
Other nearby cities have already decided about evacuations:
On Tuesday, officials ordered Perdido Key and low-lying areas of Pensacola City evacuated by noon today. Public schools also were ordered closed.
Okaloosa County today ordered an evacuation of all areas south of U.S. Highway 98, which includes parts of Fort Walton Beach and Destin.
Neighboring Santa Rosa County asked for a voluntary evacuation of Navarre Beach
The residents and tourists who remain want to ride out the storm. The residents hope they can care for their homes during the hurricane. The tourists want the experience of riding out the storm.
Pensacola Beach officials are submitting urgent recommendations to the mayor to help him decide whether or not to make the evacuation mandatory.
At 9 a.m. EDT, the center of Olivia was near 27.6 north latitude and 88.4 west longitude, or about 225 miles south-southwest of Pensacola Beach.
The storm is now a category-four on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale. If the storm stays at this strength, its winds could tear roofs off and the storm surge could damage or destroy many coastal buildings.
Forecasters predict the storm will hit somewhere between Mobile, Alabama and just north of St. Petersburg, Florida. Pensacola Beach and Pensacola are at the center of that area.
Pensacola Beach, along with the rest of possible strike zone, is under a hurricane warning. The warning is in effect from Mobile east to Anclote Key on the West Coast of Florida.
A tropical storm warning extends south from the hurricane warning area, running south to Venice. A hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning extends west of Mobile to Grand Isle, La.
In Mexico, at least 10 people died and 20 are missing after Olivia passed over the Yucatan peninsula. The storm caused flooding that drove more than 20,000 people from their homes in the states of Campeche and Tabasco
Last time I checked that storms name was Opal
What in the world? 
