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The others were Camille in 1969 and the Labor Day hurricane in 1935. Michael was the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States as a Category 5 since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. There isn’t a week that goes by I don’t have at least one of my daughters’ friends staying at our house. “We’ve got families doubled and tripled up. “There are abandoned houses everywhere, and there’s almost nowhere that people aren’t doing work, Carroll said. The county has already borrowed more than $250 million for storm clean-up vendors as it waits for federal and state reimbursement. The estimate doesn’t include damages in cities within its boundaries. The county government estimated storm damages of more than $661 million, the statement said. “The federal government has historically provided major disaster funding we anticipate and expect the same treatment, and we need them to step up and provide some funding and some relief,” he said. In a statement Friday, Bay County Commission Vice-Chairman Robert Carroll said the findings don’t automatically mean more aid but urged Congress to pass a disaster aid package for the area. The report said $18.4 billion of the estimated $25 billion in damage from Micheal occurred in Florida.Īgricultural and forestry losses represented about $3.3 billion, primarily in Florida and Georgia. In Mexico Beach, 1,584 of the town’s 1,692 buildings were reported damaged more than 800 were destroyed. More than 45,000 structures were damaged and more than 1,500 destroyed in the county, including severe damage to two hospitals. Winds and storm surge caused “devastating to catastrophic damage” in Bay County, Florida, the report said.
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