Hurricane Michael 2018

what one dude said "it was a 350 mile wide tornado".

 

Hard to gauge without before and after shots

Cnn has before and after shots

Here Mexico Beach before and after photos show there's nothing left for some - CNN

 

It was like pressure washing an ant hill.

 

They already know that at least 14 people died.

After Michael's rampage on Florida Panhandle: 'Nothing Left'

 

^with all those houses that were completely obliterated on Mexico Beach, i hope everyone got out safely or the death toll is going to go much higher

 

I think the article said 285 people are on record as not having evacuated and they've only accounted for a handful of them.

 

Jesus.....

 

No, Michael

 

How you knowit ain't Michelle?

 

I was just reading this about the 18 deaths known about so far.

It's so heartbreaking.

Weather is the only thing in this world that I'm really afraid of.

Wife watched her husband die
Sitting in a red pickup just steps away from her damaged home, Gayle Sweet recalled the last moments she shared with her husband.
"I told him, 'Hold on, just hold on, I'm calling for help now,' " she told CNN affiliate WFTS on Thursday, sobbing.


Hurricane Michael destroyed her home and killed the love of her life
Her husband, Steven, was killed when an oak tree smashed their home in Gretna, Florida, and landed on top of him. The 44-year-old was among at least 18 who have died since Hurricane Michael made landfall Wednesday.
Hours after the storm left her home in ruins, Gayle Sweet refused to leave. Her husband's body was still trapped in the rubble.
"Hopefully they (emergency crews) will be here soon. I'm not going anywhere until they bring him out," she said.
Here's what we know so far about some of the 17 and counting who did not survive Hurricane Michael Hurricane Michael death toll rises to 17, including 8 in Florida - CNN pic.twitter.com/jwxTXFYF49

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) October 13, 2018
At least eight people, including Sweet, have died in Florida. An 11-year-old girl died in Georgia when a carport came crashing through the roof. Two of the three people who were killed in North Carolina died when their vehicle struck a tree that had fallen because of high winds, said Adrienne Jones, deputy director for the McDowell County Emergency Medical Services.
Six people died in Virginia. Four drowned and a firefighter was killed when a tractor-trailer lost control and hit his truck on a wet highway in Hanover County. The Virginia Department of Emergency Management said Saturday a sixth person died in Charlotte County.

 

Y'all...He died with his head in her lap.

As Hurricane Michael roared through the Panhandle and Big Bend Wednesday afternoon, Gayle and Steve walked onto the front porch of their home in Gretna, a small town of about 1,400 residents west of Quincy. They heard a tall pine tree crash down across the street.



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They quickly shuffled back inside to shelter from the wind that was picking up, when a large oak tree smashed through their roof, taking them down with it.

“The wind came whipping across,” she said, “and the next thing I know it went black.”

Steve, 44, was pinned under the tree, his torso sprawled on her lap. Her left leg twisted underneath the trunk. She cried for help and was able to phone her dad, who lives nearby. He came with her brother-in-law and pulled her out.

She made it out alive. Her husband didn’t. Her dad and brother-in-law weren’t able to pull him out from under the weight of the tree. He died in her lap.

“It’s a nightmare,” Gayle, 53, said, shaking her head. “Just a nightmare. And I keep trying to wake up.”

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Gayle Sweet, 53, stares at her nearly demolished house in Gretna, Florida, where her husband Steve Sweet died after a tree fell on the house during Hurricane Michael Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. His body was still inside the building pinned under the tree until Thursday evening. (Photo: Nada Hassanein/Democrat)


Steve Sweet is one of four reported deaths in Gadsden County from the passage of Hurricane Michael, which came ashore in the Panhandle as a Category 4 storm Wednesday afternoon.

Most residents were without power in Gadsden County, which is less than 100 miles east of where the storm made landfall. In Michael's aftermath, downed power lines and oak trees split at the bases of their trunks are a common sight in the county-seat, Quincy.

On Thursday, more than 18 hours after Michael brought her tragedy, Gayle appeared still dazed, streaks of dry blood stain in her blonde hair. She hit her head when the tree crashed. Red cuts line her left shoulder and foot. Michael not only stole her husband. The storm's aftermath frustrated attempts to recover his body.

Steve’s body was still inside as of 1 p.m. Thursday. Gayle refused to go to the hospital until he was out.

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Gayle Sweet, 53, stares at her nearly demolished house in Gretna, Florida, where her husband Steve Sweet died after a tree fell on the house during Hurricane Michael Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. His body was still inside the building pinned under the tree until Thursday evening. (Photo: Nada Hassanein/Democrat)


She closed her eyes and whispers, “I just want him out. I just want them to get him out.”

His body was finally retrieved Thursday evening, Gadsden County Sheriff's Office confirmed. It was more than 24 hours after the incident.

She said a Federal Emergency Management Agency representative stopped by to assess damage around 8 a.m. A GCSO investigator also stopped by. She was told there were other fatalities around the county and wasn’t given a time frame as to when he could be pulled out.


The home off Greensboro Highway in Gretna, Florida, pictured Thursday morning, where 44-year-old Steve Sweet died after a large oak tree crashed onto his home during Hurricane Michael the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. His body wasn't retrieved until Thursday evening. (Photo: Nada Hassanein/Democrat)


Steve Sweet was a sales manager at the Chevrolet-Buick Quincy dealership, where Gayle is an office manager. They just celebrated their 15th anniversary last Valentine’s Day. The soft-hearted man with the silly sense of humor would always give his wife bracelets and necklaces. He had her name tattooed onto his arm.

“He was one-of-a-kind,” she said.

Before the storm, he bought ice for a woman who didn’t have the money, Gayle said.

Gayle’s brother Joey Livings, 49, said Steve was the kind of man who would do all he could to help someone.

“He's done everything for everybody,” Livings said, resisting tears. He remembered the time Steve spent all day and night fixing Livings’ truck.

“I can get that for you, Joey,” he’d always say. “There wasn’t a time you could not call him that he wouldn’t drop everything and come help you.”

Contact Nada Hassanein at nhassanein@tallahassee.com.

 

Hurricane Michael has already got 18 deaths attributed to it.

Mexico Beach says there are 79 people there who have still not been accounted for.

 

after the hurricane.

 

Actually, that's Tippery Ireland after storm Ophelia.

 

k, photo just said hurricane

 

Still, that's crazy.

 

Id hope they scoop them up and still process them. its apples. even for industrial uses. but i havent a clue.

 

I know some of you find the argument redundant

But death toll for the Indonesian Tsunami has past 2000, with thousands more still missing