The elementary school, the flight line, the marina and the runways were devastated. The hurricane's eyewall passed directly overhead, severely damaging nearly every building and leaving many a complete loss. Many of the 600 families who live there had followed orders to pack what they could in a single suitcase as they were evacuated before the storm. Brian Laidlaw told the 3,600 men and women stationed on the base not to come back. Tyndall "took a beating," so much so that Col. Michael, then a Category 4 storm, blew ashore there on Wednesday with devastating 155 mph winds and nearly 10 feet of storm surge, leaving entire blocks of homes reduced to nothing but concrete slabs in the sand or piles of splintered lumber.Ĭoastal neighborhoods in nearby Panama City also sustained severe damage, as did Tyndall Air Force Base. The before and after photos provided by DigitalGlobe show parts of Mexico Beach laid to waste. PANAMA CITY Officials continue to drive the city down the road to recovery more than three years after Hurricane Michael, approving on Tuesday 40 million of water and sewer. New satellite imagery shows the extent of Hurricane Michael's destructive power in several areas of the Florida Panhandle. Portions of Mexico Beach are shown nearly completely destroyed in new satellite imagery.
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