QUINCY, Fla. — As the city of Tallahassee woke up relieved last week that it had been spared from Hurricane Michael’s most brutal gusts, Teresa Stevenson woke up nervous in a den of screeching animals 20 miles away. She was cut off from the world in a trailer in a 36-acre forest, a quarter-mile down […]
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Five more deaths reported in Virginia after Michael rips through
Hurricane Michael, which ripped through the Southeast, leaving a trail of death and destruction from Florida to Virginia, finally moved off the coast, over the Atlantic Ocean overnight. Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane – the strongest on record to hit the area – wreaking havoc and […]
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Hurricane Michael: Watch drone video showing devastation in Florida
MIAMI (AP) — Florida’s Panhandle is littered with evidence that Hurricane Michael is one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the mainland United States. Roofs and awnings are peeled from buildings, pieces of homes are scattered amid snapped trees and downed power lines, chunks of beaches are washed away. Michael thrashed Georgia as a hurricane […]
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Michael, third-most powerful hurricane to hit mainland, rips through Southeast
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — The third-most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in recorded history left a wide path of destruction, destroying homes and shopping centers and felling trees that killed at least two people in Florida and Georgia. And it’s not done yet. Hurricane Michael finally weakened to a tropical storm on […]
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Hurricane Michael on a collision course with Florida Gulf Coast
Florida’s northern Gulf Coast faces its most serious hurricane threat in more than a decade as Michael edges ever closer. The intensifying storm is likely to make landfall Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane, and conditions will begin to deteriorate Tuesday night. The hurricane has strengthened to Category 2, with the storm’s winds near 100 […]
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Hurricane Michael to hit Florida on Wednesday as a Category 3
Hurricane Michael is strengthening as it enters the Gulf of Mexico, and is aimed at Florida. The storm is expected to become a Category 3 hurricane by the time it reaches Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday. It will probably be the area’s strongest hurricane in at least 13 years. Both Florida’s Panhandle, from Pensacola to […]