Hurricane Michael

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is going to bend some of the voting rules for voters living in counties hammered by Hurricane Michael. The administration of Gov. Rick Scott announced Thursday that eight counties in Florida’s Panhandle can start and end early voting beyond existing deadlines. Normally, early voting is supposed end the weekend before […]

LYNN HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — Mary Frances Parrish is expecting to be without electricity for several weeks, or roughly the same time the terminally ill son she’s caring for is expected to live. In the days after Hurricane Michael smashed through her neighborhood, leaving many of her neighbors’ homes destroyed, she and her son Derrell, […]

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — The devastation inflicted by Hurricane Michael came into focus Thursday with rows upon rows of homes found smashed to pieces, and rescue crews began making their way into the stricken areas in hopes of accounting for hundreds of people who may have stayed behind. At least three deaths were blamed […]

Hurricane Michael tore through Florida and is now headed to the Carolinas as a tropical storm. The storm left a trail of destruction in its path. Mayor of Tallahassee and gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Gillum, is on the ground ready to rebuild. According to Gillum, Tallahassee’s biggest threat “was always going to be wind.” The strong […]

Hurricane Michael made landfall as a category 4, but Sybil says it was only 2 mph shy of a category 5. Tom says this hurricane showed out. He brought heavy rain, strong winds and lots of destruction. Shockingly there have only been two deaths reported as a result of the storm. Michael is now a […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Michael upended the governor’s race in the battleground state of Florida, and one of the beneficiaries could be Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee who spent days in the storm’s path. Before Michael made landfall , Gillum seemed to blanket the national airwaves, sounding much like the man he […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Michael roared down on the Florida Panhandle strengthening into a Category 4 hurricane early Wednesday before it crashes against the region’s white-sand beaches, fishing villages and coastal communities later in the day. The unexpected brute that quickly sprang from a weekend tropical depression grew swiftly, rising in days to a catastrophic […]