Vacation in Panama City Beach

Posted by jerry as Fish

Last week, I took my family to Panama City Beach. I know what you’re thinking - what a dump. I don’t mean Panama City, I mean Panama City Beach - a few miles down the coast. It’s not the concrete jungle that Panama City is… Yet.

When we arrived, I was standing at the back of our van in the unloading area of our condo. As I was waiting for my wife to come back with a luggage cart, a fire truck with lights and siren pulled up behind me. Two firemen jumped out and yelled at me to get out of the way (I wasn’t in the way).

After settling in, we went to the pool. While we were there, a Coast Guard helicopter kept slowly flying over the beach about 200 yards away.

As it turns out, somewhere between 50 and 100 people (the exact number is not clear) had to be rescued from the Gulf. Two people drown as we started our vacation.

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