We went to check on our relatives in the Panama City area three days AFTER Hurricane Michael, a CAT 5.
The devastation was horrendous. I have been thru 5 hurricanes CAT 2’s and 3’s, and never saw anything like Michael’s destruction.
Entire forests of old growth pines, 2 and 3 feet thick cut down like a giant lawnmower went thru them at 15 feet off the ground.....
If a 5 is anywhere near coming at you get away as far and as fast as you possibly can...................
Yeah a team from my church went to Mexico Beach 2 or 3 times after hurricane Michael setting up sheds for people to have a place to store whatever they could salvage from their houses.
They came back stunned at the complete destruction.
That’s the one that really took out Mexico Beach, right?
“Entire forests of old growth pines, 2 and 3 feet thick”
NOT old growth. Those pines were planted by St. Joe Paper and are harvested before getting close to 3 feet thick.
St Joe Paper also clear-cut millions of acres of old growth forest, engaging in silviculture to replant the areas with slash pine. The practice decimated the native longleaf pine stands, reducing the species to “2 percent of its former range.” Because of this, the United States Department of the Interior designated parts of the region a Critically Endangered Ecosystem.[7]
“If a 5 is anywhere near coming at you get away as far and as fast as you possibly can...................”
Both my brother and sister rode it out in their houses.
We had invited my brother and sister and husband to come here but all said they would ride it out.
Both had roof damage from trees but no major wind damage. My brother lost water due to a tree uprooting and pulling the PVC coupling apart on his water main.
Of course power and cable were out.
Main Verizon tower was taken down but he kept in touch with neighbor’s T-Mobile.
Thus PC became one of the first Verizon 5G cities.