Blue Roof

Hurricane Ivan hit Pensacola like a ton of bricks in 2004. There were “blue roofs” everywhere, tarps that FEMA put up to provide “temporary” relief. Well, three (temporary?) years later you will still find homes and other buildings with the remnants of the blue tarps. Here, on one of the city’s own buildings (Mosquito Control), the tattered remains of a blue tarp are left to flap in the breeze. It’ll probably stay that way for a while, as the city tries to figure out where it’s going to get the revenue to fund various projects and city services when new property tax reforms take place.