Panama City residents describe Michael's fury
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(10 Oct 2018) Hurricane Michael downed trees and power lines as it began its push inland. "Like a jet engine. The wind just super, super high pitch," said Panama City resident Vance Beau. "You could feel it in your ears, just the pressure just changing in and out. It was scary." Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a catastrophic Category 4 Hurricane, pushing a deadly storm surge and whipping the coast with 155 mph (250 kph) winds. Forecasters mark landfall as the place and time when the center of the eye strikes land. Minutes earlier, Michael's eyewall came ashore between Panama City and St. Vincent Island, and the hurricane center warned everyone inside the relative calm of the eye not to venture outside. Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 45 miles (75 km) from the center. Those winds were tearing some buildings apart in Panama City Beach. "The wind was so strong, and with the trees you can hear just about every tree cracking and breaking and the rain just hitting up against the house," said resident Antrese McCormick." "You can tell it was something major, but again if you've never experience a hurricane or major storm trust me it is something you don't ever want to go through." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/1b5147c75a2a1a26e5158fc6f05977b2
