Less than a week ago, a system in the area south of Mexico and Cuba was just a bunch of wind and rain with no direction – but less than seven days later, it would have a name – Hurricane Michael – and end up being the third most intense storm to strike the United States as its 155 mile per hour winds barreled into the Florida panhandle.
All of a sudden, in a matter of hours, the areas known to anyone who has lived in Tallahassee or attended FSU like Mexico Beach, Apalachicola and Panama City saw mass destruction from the storm that will take months and maybe even years to rebuild – if some things are even able to be rebuilt at all.