The footage also captures emergency responders clearing rubble off of the road. The caption reads, “Some of the worst damage I’ve ever seen.”
The area is widely inaccessible because of the damage,NBC Newsreported.
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Scott commented, “This morning, Florida’s Gulf Coast, Panhandle, and Big Bend are waking up to unimaginable destruction. So many lives have been changes forever. So many families have lost everything. Homes are gone. Businesses are gone. Roads and infrastructure along the storm’s path have been destroyed. This hurricane was an absolute monster, and the damage left in its wake is still yet to be fully understood.”
“Mexico Beach was wiped out,” Brock Long, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told CNN. “That’s probably ground zero.”
Sen. Bill Nelson said, according toCNN, “You are going to see a lot of destruction when the rescue crews get into Mexico Beach. … That’s where you’re going to see the extreme, extreme devastation.”
“We had furniture in our house that wasn’t even ours,” Mexico Beach resident Scott Boutwell told CNN.
“When the water came in, houses started floating in front of our home,” he said. “And then once you seen that, then everything just went black. You couldn’t see anything anywhere.”
“This was never in our imagination,” Boutwell added. “All the stores, all the restaurants, everything — there’s nothing left here anymore.”
“This is total devastation,” Patricia Mulligan, another local, told CNN. “We didn’t think it was going to be this bad.”
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The hurricanekilled at least two people, an 11-year-old girl in Seminole County, Georgia, and a man in his mid-40s in Greensboro, Florida. Theydied when trees fellon a mobile home and a house, respectively.
Michael has weakened to a tropical storm and is now threatening parts of North Carolina, South Carolina and southeastern Virginia with flash flooding, according to the National Hurricane Center.
source: people.com
