![]() He says it’s still too dangerous in Bay County, Florida, where the hurricane made landfall. Federal Emergency Management Administrator Brock Long warned residents of the hardest hit area not to go back yet. ![]() Black says poultry contributes $23.3 billion to Georgia’s economy and has reported the most widespread power outages and losses. Black said crops, animals and infrastructure have all taken a substantial loss because of the storm. ![]() Georgia’s Department of Agriculture Commissioner Gary W. Brian Laidlaw told the 3,600 airmen stationed at the base just east of Panama City that he won’t ask them or their families to return until their safety is guaranteed. The commander of Tyndall Air Force Base says the “base took a beating” from Hurricane Michael and will require “extensive cleanup and repairs.” Col. A helicopter dropped water and food at the facility on Thursday after a tree downed during the storm caused a water line to break. State officials say Florida’s largest psychiatric hospital has been “entirely cut off.” Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee has been running on emergency generators. Bay Medical Sacred Heart was moving about 200 patients from buildings with blown-out windows, a cracked exterior wall and a collapsed roof. The largest hospitals in Panama City shut down and evacuated hundreds of patients due to heavy hurricane damage. Similar scenes played out in parts of Virginia as the storm raced seaward. Flashing flooding also was reported in the big North Carolina cities of Charlotte and Raleigh. ![]() The power outages were concentrated in central North Carolina’s Piedmont region, where motorists had to be rescued Thursday from cars trapped by high water. Michael left North Carolina behind with rivers rising and more than 530,000 households in the dark. In a beach town home about 1,200 people, entire blocks of homes have been reduced to nothing but concrete slabs in the sand or piles of splintered lumber. One of the hardest-hit spots in Florida is Mexico Beach, where Michael crashed ashore. The figure does not include losses covered by the National Flood Insurance Program.Īn aerial view shows debris strewn over streets after Hurricane Michael blew through Mexico Beach, Florida, in this still image taken from drone video obtained from social media. It includes the privately insured wind and storm surge damage to residential, commercial and industrial properties and automobiles. Damage estimates: Boston-based Karen Clark & Company, an insurance company that produces models for catastrophes, is estimating Hurricane Michael caused about $8 billion in insured losses.The human cost: Falling trees killed a man in Iredell County, North Carolina an 11-year-old girl in Seminole County, Georgia, was killed when a carport blew through the roof of her home four people were killed in Gadsden County, Florida, near Tallahassee and Virginia had five storm related deaths, including a man who was swept away from his vehicle.Food and water: 2 million ready-to-eat meals, 1 million gallons (3.75 million liters) of water and 40,000 10-pound (4.5-kilogram) bags of ice ready for distribution in Florida.Power outages: Roughly a million customers in Georgia, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina lost power.Staying safe: nearly 6,700 people took refuge in 54 shelters in Florida.Rescued: 47 helped out of hard-hit areas along Florida’s coastline, and 20 people in flooded neighborhoods in North Carolina.Storm riders: Roughly 375,000 people in Florida warned to evacuate many refused, including 285 people in Mexico Beach where Michael made landfall.High water: estimated peak storm surge of 9 feet (2.75 meters) and 14 feet (4.25 meters) from Mexico Beach east through Apalachee Bay, according to the National Hurricane Center.Powerful pressure: 919 millibars minimum pressure in the eye, the third most intense hurricane landfall in the U.S.Top winds: 155 mph (250 kph), strong enough to completely destroy homes and cause weekslong power outages.Hurricane history: first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in Florida’s Panhandle since record-keeping began in 1851.The storm also has brought flash flooding to hurricane-weary parts of the Carolinas and Virginia. MIAMI - Tropical Storm Michael has sped off toward the Atlantic Ocean, but there will be nothing quick about Florida’s recovery from the hurricane, where rows upon rows of homes have been smashed to pieces.
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