A person walks along apartment roofs on Navarre Beach, Florida as the Governor toured the area after Hurricane Opal. Hurricane Opal impacted the Florida panhandle as a category three storm when it came ashore near Pensacola, Florida October 4, 1995. It was the strongest hurricane of the 1995 season and killed 63 people, 13 in the United States. Hurricane Opal's name was retired the following year.