Rescuers comb the debris of Florida beach communities for hurricane survivors

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Rescuers comb the debris of Florida beach communities for hurricane survivors







PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (Reuters) - Rescuers will collect debris from devastated beach communities seeking survivors on Friday after Michael, one of the most powerful hurricanes in US history, crashed into the Florida Panhandle. killed at least seven people. 

Michael hit the northwest coast of Florida near the small town of Mexico Beach on Wednesday afternoon with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour (250 kph), pushing a wall of seawater inland and causing widespread flooding. 

The storm destroyed entire neighborhoods, reducing homes and businesses to piles of wood and sidings, damaging roads and leaving scenes of devastation that resembled the aftermath of a bomb-bomb operation. 

US Army personnel UU He used heavy equipment to make his way through debris on the beach in Mexico to allow rescuers to search for residents, survivors or trapped victims, while Blackhawk helicopters circled overhead. Rescuers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) used dogs, drones and GPS in the search.  

"We prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Obviously, this is the worst, "said Stephanie Palmer, a FEMA firefighter and rescuer from Coral Springs, Florida. 

Much of downtown Port St. Joe, 12 miles (19 km) east of Mexico Beach, flooded after Michael split the boats in two and launched a large ship to the coast, residents said.  

"We had houses that were on one side of the street and now they are on the other," said Mayor Bo Patterson, who watched the trees fly out his window as he left the storm at his home seven blocks from the beach. 

Patterson estimated that 1,000 houses were totally or partially destroyed in his city of 3,500 people. 

Jordon Tood, 31, captain of a charter boat in Port St. Joe, said: "There were mandatory evacuation orders, but only idiots like us stayed." 

"This was my sixth (hurricane), so I thought I was ready," he said. 

In Apalachicola, about 30 miles (48 km) east of where the storm made landfall, slightly less than half of the 2,200 people stayed and left the storm, residents said.  

"I've never seen anything like this madness," said Danny Itzkovitz, owner of Tamara's 54-year-old cafeteria while he was busy roasting hamburgers. "We had storms before, in '05 we had four or five in a row, I did not even remove the boards from my window, but, holy smoke, this one kicked our butts." 









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The storm ripped part of the roof of the gym and ripped out a wall at Jinks High School in Panama City. A year ago, the school received students and families displaced by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. 

"I've had employees go to the communities where our children live, they go door to door and check," said director Britt Smith on the phone. "I've been awake since 3:30 or 4 a.m. sending an email and checking the staff to see if they're safe." So far, everyone seems to be very safe. " 

With a low barometric pressure recorded at 919 millibars, a measure of the strength of a hurricane, Michael was the third strongest storm recorded in the territory of the United States, behind Hurricane Camille on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969 and the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. in the Florida Keys. 

It weakened during the night to a tropical storm.  

Michael, a Category 4 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale when he landed, was about 15 miles (25 km) northeast of Norfolk, Virginia, at 10 p.m. (0200 GMT), with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (80 kph) as it headed toward the Atlantic coast, the US National Hurricane Center said. UU   

It was knocking down trees and causing life-threatening floods in the Georgia and Virginia areas, which are still recovering from Hurricane Florence, while marching northeast. 

At least seven people were killed by falling trees and other hurricane-related incidents in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, according to state officials. 

The emergency services carried out dozens of rescues of people trapped in fast-moving flood waters in North Carolina. 

Many of the injured in Florida were moved to Panama City, 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Mexico Beach. 

The Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center treated some, but the hospital evacuated 130 patients due to problems with generators that worked after the storm interrupted the power supply, ripped part of its roof and broke the windows, according to a spokesperson for the hospital owner, HCA Healthcare Inc (HCA.N). 

Due to the storm, almost 1.2 million homes and businesses were without power from Florida to Virginia on Thursday.  

The number of people in emergency shelters is expected to increase to 20,000 in five states by Friday, said Brad Kieserman of the American Red Cross.  

Brad Rippey, a meteorologist from the US Department of Agriculture. UU. He said that Michael severely damaged cotton, timber, pecan and peanut crops, which caused estimated liabilities of up to $ 1.9 billion and affected up to 3.7 million acres (1.5 million hectares). 

Michael also disrupted energy operations in the US Gulf of Mexico. UU As it approached the land, reducing the production of crude oil by more than 40 percent and the production of natural gas by almost a third when evacuating the marine platforms. 





Report of Devika Krishna Kumar in Port St. Joe, Fla .; Additional reporting by Rod Nickel in Panama City, Florida, Gina Cherelus and Scott DiSavino in New York, Gary McWilliams and Liz Hampton in Houston, Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas, Humeyra Pamuk in Washington, Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee and Alex Dobuzinskis and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Written by Andrew Hay and Dan Whitcomb; Edited by Bill Tarrant, Peter Cooney and Paul Tait





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