![]() ![]() We thought the windows were going to break at any time,” Beu said. ![]() The roar of the winds, he said, sounded like a jet engine. A pine tree punched a hole in their roof and his ears even popped when the barometric pressure went lower. Vance Beu, 29, was staying with his mother at her home, Spring Gate Apartments, a complex of single-story wood frame buildings where they piled up mattresses around themselves for protection. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. More than 380,000 homes and businesses were without power at the height of the storm. Roofs were peeled away, sent airborne, and homes were split open by fallen trees. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesĪfter daylight Thursday residents of north Florida would just be beginning to take stock of the enormity of the disaster.ĭamage in Panama City near where Michael came ashore Wednesday afternoon was so extensive that broken and uprooted trees and downed power lines lay nearly everywhere. Rick Teska (L) helps a business owner rescue his dogs from the damaged business after hurricane Michael passed through the area on Octoin Panama City, Florida. The core of Michael will move across eastern Georgia into Central South Carolina on Thursday morning. The storm’s maximum sustained winds have decreased to 80 km/h and it was moving to the northeast at 33 km/h. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said early Thursday that the eye of Michael was about 144 kilometres northeast of Macon, Georgia and about 72 kilometres west of Augusta. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |