Michael smashes houses in Florida’s Panhandle
US - In the decimated city of Callaway, pieces of obliterated houses litter rain-drenched roads. Every telephone pole in sight has snapped in half.
“It’s very hard to explain,” said Jason Gunderson, a member of the Cajun Navy rescue group. “The only way I can explain it, through my eyeballs, is a Third World country war zone.” Similar scenes are emerging across the Florida Panhandle, where Hurricane Michael left more than 350,000 without power and entire neighborhoods in ruins after hitting Wednesday afternoon near Mexico Beach as a dangerous Category 4 storm.
“It feels like a nightmare,” Mexico Beach Councilwoman Linda Albrecht said of the catastrophic damage in her town. “Somebody needs to come up and shake you and wake you up.” The storm has already killed a man in Florida and a girl in Georgia. And as rescue workers sift through the debris yesterday, many fear the death toll will rise.
After slamming Florida and lashing Georgia, Michael is now threatening the stormweary Carolinas. Tornadoes, dangerous winds and more flooding are possible in many of the same areas still recovering from Hurricane Florence. Michael is expected to dump 4 to 7 inches of rain from eastern Georgia to the southern midAtlantic and up to 9 inches of rain in parts of North Carolina and Virginia, the National Hurricane Center said. (CNN)