PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Residents and officials started coming to terms with the scope of Hurricane Ivan's wrath Friday and agreed it would be a long road back to normalcy.

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Ivan killed at least 14 people in northwest Florida and damaged hundreds of buildings with fierce 130-mph winds, flooding and tornadoes when it struck before dawn Thursday.

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Residents emerged from shelters and boarded-up homes to face a new plight after Ivan released its frightening grip: some neighborhoods strewn with rubble, no electricity in Florida's sweltering weather and trouble getting basics like food and water.

"It's devastating. There's so many people who lost so much," said Melinda Hastings, 32, who waited to buy cigarettes and Hawaiian Punch from the Family Foods Market in Pensacola. Still, she said: "We'll make it if everybody holds together and puts it back together. We'll be all right."

Gov. Jeb Bush deployed about 2,000 National Guard troops to the Panhandle and offered a grim assessment after touring the area Friday.

"I would think that when they do the final assessment, this is like Charley but a bigger area," Bush said at the Santa Rosa County Emergency Management Center.

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Ivan was nearly twice as big as Hurricane Charley, which devastated much of southwest Florida last month. And the population of the area Charley hit was much less. Escambia County alone has a population of about 300,000 while the three counties most affected by Charley -- Charlotte, Hardee and Wauchula counties -- have a combined population of about 208,000.

Bush said Florida Panhandle residents would be without power and water for so long that they needed more than bottled water to get by.

"We're going to have to bring in tankers for water," Bush said.

And air conditioning is not just a luxury for some people, he pointed out.

"Living without air conditioning, it's not just an inconvenience, that's a health issue for a lot of people," Bush said.

Gulf Power's phone lines were jammed Friday and officials could not be reached. On its Web site, the company called the damage "catastrophic." Some 790 miles of power of transmission lines were damaged, the company said.

The governor's brother, President Bush, was expected to visit the area Sunday, his third trip to review hurricane damage in Florida. Ivan is the third hurricane to ravage the state in a span of five weeks.

Search and rescue workers may have to use aircraft to get to hard-hit areas that are cut off by washed-out roads, said Mike Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He said the agency had enough workers to respond to victims of Ivan and the previous two hurricanes.

"Virtually the entire state of Florida is a disaster area," Brown said Friday. "These people are just worn out from these storms."

Electricity, water and sewer services could take weeks to be restored in all of Escambia County, where Pensacola was pummeled by Ivan, county emergency management chief Michael Hardin said.

"We've got a long haul ahead of us," Hardin told NBC's "Today Show."

As Ivan's remnants dropped heavy rain on the southern Appalachian region Friday, more trouble lingered out in the Atlantic. Tropical Storm Jeanne became a hurricane in the Caribbean but then weakened as it moved over the northeastern Dominican Republic. It could be near Florida's east coast as early as Sunday.

Ivan hit the state's northern Gulf Coast, leaving power lines entangled across roadways like hundreds of snakes, and sending waves 21/2 stories high crashing into beaches and highways. Some roads and bridges were washed out or closed, leaving people cut off from their homes and facing more days in shelters.

Divers searched Friday for the driver of a damaged truck that sat on the edge of the destroyed bridge, said Maj. Ernie Duarte, a Florida Highway Patrol spokesman. Photos of the solitary truck, which was missing its front cab, were transmitted around the world. Duarte said the cab of the truck was embedded in mud and divers had not been able to reach it.

The trailer had a Texas license plate registered to an individual, and the highway patrol was working with the Texas Department of Public Safety to learn the driver's identity.

Damage to the bridge prevented a tow truck from removing the trailer, and officials were working to bring a barge into the area to remove it.

Powerful Hurricane Destroys Homes

At least a half-dozen homes and businesses in one Pensacola neighborhood were demolished, some swept off their foundations. The road leading to his home was littered with clothes, mattresses and furniture. A Barbie doll lay to one side of the pavement, a backpack adorned with the name "Angel" on the other.

Liz Robinson sat on the curb near where her house once stood, her eyes rimmed with tears. Her home was now a pile of unrecognizable debris, flattened when the roof came crashing down .

"I just want my pictures, my mementos. ... It's over," she said, her voice breaking.

Seven deaths were in Escambia County, which contains Pensacola, with four in Calhoun, two in Bay and one in Santa Rosa, where an 8-year-old girl was crushed by a tree. The storm spun off at least a dozen tornadoes that were responsible for at least six of the deaths.

Rescue teams fanned out Thursday looking for victims, a task complicated by downed power lines, trees and other debris blocking many roads. No new storm victims were found early Friday, officials in Panhandle counties said.

A National Guard convoy left Tallahassee early Friday to deliver food, ice, water and other supplies to hard-hit areas, state emergency operations spokesman Sterling Ivey said. Counties hoped to get relief centers set up later in the day.

Damage Estimates Up To $10 Billion

Ivan was the most destructive hurricane to strike the Panhandle since Hurricane Opal in October 1995, which assaulted a 150-mile stretch of coast from Pensacola to Apalachicola with a storm surge of up to 15 feet. Opal killed two people and caused about $2 billion in damage.

Early estimates put Ivan's insured damages at $3 billion to $10 billion -- adding to estimated damages of about $11 billion to $13 billion for Hurricanes Charley and Frances. Experts say overall damage is usually double the insured damage. Overall, at least 65 people have been killed in the three storms or during the cleanup.

With the Panhandle east of Ivan's eye, it took the storm's fiercest winds and its highest storm tides -- a powerful surge of sea water 10 to 16 feet high, topped by battering waves.

A portion of a bridge on Interstate 10, the major east-west highway through the Panhandle, was knocked down by the storm and left impassable.

"Virtually every coastal bridge west of Bay County has sustained some kind of damage," said state Transportation Secretary Jose Abreu.

Downtown Pensacola was littered with metal sheet roofing; an Oldsmobile sat half-submerged in muddy floodwaters. A block away, two large metal trash bins and an aluminum row boat blocked an intersection. At a marina, a jumble of pleasure boats lay atop one another.

U.S. Highway 98 in Navarre, a bedroom community about 20 miles east of Pensacola, was littered with remnants from homes and a soda vending machine lay on its back in the median.

Four hospitals in Escambia had some roof damage and broken windows. One tornado damaged a federal prison in Marianna. Inmates were locked down in their housing unit and no security problems or injuries were reported.