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Roughly 375,000 people across 22 Florida counties in the Florida Panhandle and north-central Florida were under orders or recommendations to evacuate. Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for parts of several Florida counties, including communities such as Panama City Beach and covering over 180,000 residents. The Florida National Guard had 500 of its members activated, with another 5,000 members placed on standby. Non-mission essential personnel and aircraft were evacuated from Tyndall Air Force Base; aircraft were also moved out of Hurlburt Field and Eglin Air Force Base.
The providers stopped communicating with him directly after he brought in the adjuster, he said. He had paid $3,000 a year for his personal flood insurance, and another $1,500 for wind at his home, but he never read the details of his policies. The process seems clear and specific, but critics say neighbors endure drastically different experiences after a storm, based on subjective reasoning. After Michael, lawyers said, adjusters who never worked in a major hurricane misunderstood damage or conducted incomplete assessments. The Bay County recovery blueprint calls for signing bonuses, slashed taxes and student loan forgiveness to physicians and mental health providers who come to Bay County.
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The town of 1,200 people was largely leveled, as it was hit by 155 miles an hour winds and a storm surge of 9 feet (2.7 meters) from the category 4 hurricane. In the province of Pinar del Río, 300 people were evacuated to the homes of neighbors or relatives. In the province of Artemisa, particularly in the areas of Playa de Majana and the towns of Cajio and Guanimar, which are prone to coastal flooding, evacuations were carried out, but the number of evacuees were unknown. A national response plan was carried out and alert as well as evacuation phases were being fulfilled as well. In western Cuba, a hurricane warning was issued 10 hours before the center passed over Cabo del San Antonio. A large area of disturbed weather spawned over the mid-to-western Caribbean Sea around October 1–2, 2018, and absorbed the remnants of Tropical Storm Kirk.
"We were terrified but there was nowhere for us to go. We couldn't get on the roads. It was too late," Swab said. "I thought the roof was going to come off. I don't suggest trying to ride out a storm." Florida Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted he was hearing "stunning" reports of damage, including that "Mexico Beach is gone" and the "damage in Panama City is catastrophic." The Florida Panhandle is the wide strip in the northwest corner of the state bordered by the Gulf of Mexico to the south and Alabama and Georgia to the north. Its largest city is Pensacola, with a population approaching half a million. In Georgia, an 11-year-old girl, Sarah Radney, was killed when part of a metal carport crashed into her family's trailer in Lake Seminole and struck her in the head, local officials said.
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"We had houses that were on one side of the street and now they're on the other," said Mexico Beach Mayor Bo Patterson. "So many lives have been changed forever," state Governor Rick Scott said. "So many families have lost everything. ... This hurricane was an absolute monster." Hurricane Michael left the US state of Florida battered and bruised on Thursday, as search-and-rescue teams set to work. “Ninety percent of the buildings are gone and then you’re dealing with this insurance company that won’t even respond to you, and then when they do respond to you, it’s a joke,” Champion said.
At least 74 deaths were attributed to the storm, including 59 in the United States and 15 in Central America. As a tropical disturbance, the system caused extensive flooding in Central America in concert with a second disturbance over the eastern Pacific Ocean. In Cuba, the hurricane's winds left over 200,000 people without power as the storm passed to the island's west. Along the Florida panhandle, the cities of Mexico Beach and Panama City suffered the worst of Michael, with catastrophic damage reported due to the extreme winds and storm surge. Numerous homes were flattened and trees felled over a wide swath of the panhandle. A maximum wind gust of 139 mph (224 km/h) was measured at Tyndall Air Force Base before the sensors failed.
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Popular with tourists for its beaches, the area also has many year-round residents. FEMA Administrator Brock Long on Friday warned that the death toll will likely climb. Roberta residents Wayne and Sharon Granade told ABC News they ran inside, slammed the door, got under a couch and held each other. A bedroom of a destroyed house is pictured following Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Fla., Oct. 11, 2018. "Fire stations were destroyed, police stations were destroyed," Bowen said. Rescuers' top priority Friday is a "meticulous" search process, Bowen said, "everything from looking for bodies to looking for injured persons."
MEXICO BEACH, Fla. -- For as long as he can remember, Al Cathey has cherished the mile-long walk from his home to the center of Mexico Beach. But that all changed when he made the same walk the day after Hurricane Michael made landfall. So far, at least six deaths have been attributed to the storm, four of which in Florida. However, vast swaths of property still remained leveled as rescue operations continued through the day and into the night. Florida families emerged from shelters to find their neighborhoods leveled after the strongest storm since 1969 wreaked havoc. More than 375,000 people were issued mandatory evacuation orders, but many defied the calls.
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Several colleges and universities in south Georgia were to close for a few days. Atlanta Motor Speedway opened their campgrounds free of charge to evacuees of Hurricane Michael. One of the county’s two hospitals, heavily damaged by the storm, has only about a quarter of the beds it did before. “We are in the midst of a mental health crisis here in Bay County,” school district officials concluded in a report. That’s both the population of Puerto Rico and the number of people currently without power.
Hurricane Sally – affected the Gulf Coast of Alabama and western Florida panhandle as a Category 2 hurricane. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has since requested, with the storm's elevation to Category 5, the federal relief share be increased from 75% to 90%. As of April 2019, either value awaits passage of a specific relief package being delayed in the United States House of Representatives. The sixth-grader recently was in a school play and started playing trumpet in her school band. The Environmental Protection Agency says there were no reports of oil spills or other hazardous materials, as occurred during Hurricane Harvey last year in Houston and Hurricane Florence last month in the Carolinas. But boil water advisories are in effect in about eight locations impacted by Hurricane Michael.
Power outages affected nearly 400,000 electricity customers in Florida at their greatest extent, representing about 4% of the state. According to the Edison Electric Institute, at one point 1.2 million electricity customers were without power in several east coast and southern states. Estimated damage from Michael throughout the United States reached $25 billion.
Georgia’s Department of Agriculture Commissioner Gary W. Black said crops, animals and infrastructure have all taken a substantial loss because of the storm. Black says poultry contributes $23.3 billion to Georgia’s economy and has reported the most widespread power outages and losses. Storm surge risk — and the cost from hurricanes and other weather disasters — is only expected to increase as global warming and climate change lead to rising sea levels. A report released by the Congressional Budget Office in April estimated that such disasters will cost taxpayers as much as $17 billion a year. This chart from CoreLogic's 2019 Storm Surge Report lists the top 15 cities with the most single-family homes vulnerable to hurricane storm surge. RCV stands for Recovery Cost Value, or the cost to rebuild if every vulnerable home was destroyed.
Three-fourths of the longleaf pine trees on the base were sheared in half, equating to $14 million in harvestable timber losses. Parts of the gymnasium of a nearby elementary school were also unroofed. Most homes on the beachfront in Mexico Beach, Florida, were obliterated by Michael's catastrophic storm surge, with some even being swept off their foundations. The impacts of inland flooding were lessened by Michael's quick path through the Florida Panhandle, occurring in localized areas.
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