An October surprise that raced across the Gulf

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buy canada goose jacket cheap “I had a yard full of canada goose outlet online store 20 inch pine trees and there’s not one left standing,” said Chad Taylor, 66, a land manager in Marianna. “I can see for miles and miles,” he added, quoting the rock band the Who. “Marianna’s destroyed.” buy canada goose jacket cheap

Power outages soared through the day, reaching more than 300,000 by Wednesday evening, with nearly canada goose factory outlet 90 percent of Bay County home to canada goose jacket outlet sale Mexico Beach and Panama City losing power. Nearby Liberty County had 81 percent of accounts without power, the state reported.

Bay Medical Sacred Heart hospital in Panama City reported on Twitter that it suffered blown canada goose outlet out windows, a cracked wall and roof damage, and had shifted patients to safe areas while the hospital ran on generator power.

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Former Franklin County planner Alan Pierce said after the storm blew through that the area endured a storm surge as high as 10 feet. Officials were still trying to determine damage on barrier islands, including St. George Island, which has a state park, a small central business district and a gated community of luxury homes.

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canada goose black friday sale Other states felt the storm’s impact as it moved deeper into the Southeast. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, R, closed state offices and buildings in more than a dozen counties. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, D, declared the second statewide state of emergency in as many months. He said the storm could do damage in areas still reeling from the flooding Hurricane Florence caused in September, with housing repairs there still in the early stages. canada goose black friday sale

“I’ve seen a lot blue tarps as I’ve traveled across the state,” Cooper said. “These tropical storm force winds could cause a lot of problems.”

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Michael seemed to have caught everyone off guard, from meteorologists who study tropical cyclones to the longtime residents who chose to hunker down rather than evacuate.

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It was the most powerful tropical storm ever to hit the Florida Panhandle since record keeping began in 1851. with barometric pressure readings in the eye a key metric of a storm’s effects lower than the 919 millibars of Michael. They were the 1935 Labor Day storm (892mb) that struck the Florida Keys, and Hurricane Camille (900mb), which killed hundreds when it hit coastal Mississippi in 1969.

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“This storm went from a tropical storm to a projected Cat 3 at landfall in 6 hours yesterday,” Brad Kieserman, vice president for disaster operations and logistics for American Red Cross, said in a teleconference Wednesday. “It’s not behaving normally. It intensified extremely quickly. It didn’t give anyone time to do much. And the one thing you can’t get back in a disaster is time.”

President Donald Trump said of Michael: “It’s like a big tornado, a massive tornado.” He said the storm “grew into a monster.”

The National Weather Service’s Tallahassee office thundered on Twitter early Wednesday canada goose outlet website legit morning that it was residents’ “LAST CHANCE” to evacuate. “Hurricane Michael is an canada goose outlet montreal unprecedented event and cannot be compared to any of our previous events. Do not risk your life, leave NOW if you were told to do so.”

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“We’re turning 100 percent of our focus on search and rescue and recovery,” Scott said in a late day news briefing.

The governor said he’s received reports of “significant” damage at Tyndall Air Force Base as well as in Panama City, Mexico Beach and throughout Bay County. Two “devastating tornadoes” touched down in Gaston County, he said.

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