Quietwater Flooding on Pensacola Beach

The videos are, you might say, flooding in now. Although Hurricane Ike is almost two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Pensacola Beach, the storm's large wind field is, as predicted, causing spotty flooding problems from unusually high tide waters in the Pensacola area.

Lucky for you, the News Journal has sent Sean Dugas into the eye tail end of the storm, where things look, at worst, like a mild rain has fallen but Sean is safe: