Authorities are now saying at least 18 deaths have been caused by Hurricane Michael across four states. Michael crashed into the Florida Panhandle on October 10 as a powerful Category 4 storm, with sustained winds of 155 mph. One of the hardest-hit towns was Florida’s Mexico Beach, southeast of Panama City, where entire neighborhoods appear to have been erased by the ferocious winds—the debris of the structures scattered far inland among boats and shattered trees. Below, recent photographs from Mexico Beach, Panama City, and neighboring towns, as the full extent of the damage wrought by Michael becomes clearer.
More Photos of the Incredible Devastation Left by Hurricane Michael
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Boats inside a destroyed building are seen during a post-Hurricane Michael flight by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations helicopter near Panama City, Florida, on October 11, 2018. #
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An aerial image of a hard-hit beachside neighborhood in Mexico Beach, a day after Hurricane Michael, on October 11, 2018. To see what the neighborhood looked like pre-hurricane, view a Google Maps satellite image from 2012. #
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South Florida urban search and rescue specialist Chris Boyer removes a damaged American flag from a downed pole while checking for survivors in Mexico Beach on October 12, 2018. #
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Antwone Lollis, Joe Price, and Alfred Barnes (from left) wait for their dinner to cook on a grill outside Alfred's house, since it has no electricity after Hurricane Michael passed through, on October 12, 2018, in Panama City. #
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Cynthia Biegler, 81, stands in the church that she has attended since 1962, after two of the exterior walls were blown down when Hurricane Michael passed through, on October 13, 2018, in Panama City, Florida. #
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