1m people cut off from electricity as Hurricane Michael pounds Florida, Georgia

Not less than 1 million people remain without electricity on Friday morning after a deadly Hurricane Michael mercilessly pounded parts of Florida and Georgia.

Reports say at least six people have been confirmed dead, with entire towns flattened and electrical grids “shattered”.

The scenes are the same across communities in Florida and Georgia as trees were uprooted and cracked like toothpicks, buildings with roofs peeled off and homes flattened into an unrecognizable landscape.

A local news station, WRAL-TV reported that residents of Albany, Georgia, woke up to trees sticking out of houses and blocking 100 intersections.

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Also, Mexico Beach, Florida, looked as if a bomb had gone off as residents emerged to tally their losses.

Thirty miles up the coast in Panama City, blocks of beachfront homes were obliterated and debris lay strewn aside overturned vehicles.

“We’ll have to bulldoze and start over,” Linda Marquardt, of Mexico Beach, said of her mud-filled home.

“It looks like an atomic bomb had hit our city,” David Barnes, of Panama City, told the Panama City News Herald.

“Damage has been widespread.”

Reacting to the widespread damage, Former President Barack Obama, in a tweet, asked Americans to help rebuild.

“America is always at our best when we look out for each other,” he wrote.

 

 

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