Hurricane Michael Recovery

Some areas in the Florida Panhandle are struggling to attract visitors as they continue to recover from Hurricane Michael.

After Hurricane Michael devastated the region, many people fled their storm-damaged homes. Now down-payment assistance loans are helping put people back into neighborhoods in communities that are still recovering.

The small town is still awaiting about half of the FEMA reimbursements they expect to receive for recovery efforts.

It’s now been two years since the Category 5 storm made landfall, bringing dangerous 155 mph winds, devastating property and people’s livelihoods. Dozens were killed by the storm.

Mexico Beach was destroyed by Hurricane Michael, but that destruction may have helped spare it from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

As the summer vacation season begins, an influx of visitors have begun arriving to Mexico Beach. Some people are renting condos and townhomes, while others are staying with family and friends who live in town.

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Florida will get $380.7 million from the federal government to help parts of the timber industry and farms ravaged more than a year ago by Hurricane…

Hundreds gathered in Mexico Beach on Thursday to celebrate the community’s resiliency one year after Hurricane Michael decimated the small coastal town.

A year later, the populations of Panama City and Mexico Beach are lower, property tax rates are higher and many of the buildings that remain are just shells, lacking roofs, windows and walls.