Locals Share Frederic Stories

Mobile Anniversary On the 30th anniversary of the storm Chad talked with a few people who remember what they were doing on that day.

by Chad Petri

Published: Sat, September 12, 2009 - 4:17 pm CST Last Updated: Sat, September 12, 2009 - 4:19 pm CST

MOBILE, Alabama - Take Vince Formica. He shares a birthday with the storm. He says he ended up celebrating his 23rd birthday in a church with his wife.

“We went to our church that night and we thought we'd be safer and we huddled under the pews and something came over the radio saying the absolute worst place to be was in a church. The wind bowed the windows in and out all night. Someone took an apple and cored it out put a candle in it and they sang happy birthday, for that I was grateful.”

Judy Serda survived the storm with her children. She says she just had a new baby when the storm hit.

“We were all huddled on our first floor and we could hear just loudness just very loud stuff going on, almost like the roof coming off, and we tried to look outside, you couldn't even see outside it was so bad.”

Judy says, after the storm, she had to use the gas grill to heat her baby’s bottle. She says it was tough living without power for so long. If you haven’t seen my Frederic retrospective, you can check it out here.

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carl Says:

Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:59 am

learned a thing or two from Freddie!Never did figure out how those dogs defecated 3 or 4 feet up the wall in the utility room where I put them for the storm when all the trees were falling and the carport went bye-bye.They must have been bouncing off the walls to accomplish that.

KxVicious Says:

Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:20 pm

I know Vince’s two sons! Ha!

I wasn’t alive yet, but I know my mom got her wisdom teeth taken out the day before and spent the whole storm sleeping. Then her gums grew over the packing and she had to have surgery to remove the cotton packs when everybody got power again.