Drone footage captures devastation in Mexico Beach, Florida following Hurricane Michael

[DonViejo]

[Skruffy]

1. They got it bad. I am only starting to see reports and damage.

[California_Republic]

2. Scraped clean all long the beach

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[Skruffy]

3. Yes.

[Mr.Bill]

4. I hope there's someone in the White House

that can tell Trump that Mexico Beach is in the United States.

[magicarpet]

5. Oh my,.. imagine waking up and seeing your neighborhood look like this ?

There is some talk that it was not just a hurricane but tornados were in the mix of the storm as it hit land.

[BigmanPigman]

6. It is a hurricane that acted like a tornado in the eye.

The barometric pressure and wind speed as well as the speed in which the storm moved makes it seem like a tornado inside of a hurricane. They probabaly have a term for it... "tornadicane" like "thundersnow".

[elmac]

7. I'm surprise tRump isn't bragging about all the new clean up, building jobs

he created.

[SergeStorms]

8. It's not difficult to tell....

which houses were built to hurricane codes and which houses weren't. Any houses built in the future must be built to code or I sincerely doubt they'll be able to get insurance. I'm willing to bet many of them weren't insured as it is. Anyone with a mortgage must have insurance, but a lot of people spent their retirement money on buying these houses for cash. A lot of people are going to have to take a huge hit in the pocketbook because of it. Insurance companies too. It's a sad state of affairs all the way around.

[global1]

9. One Would Think Insurance Companies And Electric Utility Companies Would....

be lobbying Congress to do something about climate change. Insurance companies will go out of business if they have to keep paying claims on storms like these.

And I can't understand why electric utilities keep putting up power lines above ground. How many times are they going to just replace these lines - doing the same thing - and expecting a different result. Why don't they move to underground utilities. I just don't get it.

And our government - denying climate change - yet having to declare disaster areas of these climate change storm ridden communities - and pay out huge sums of money for rebuilding.

[Gumboot]

10. Jeez, that's heartbreaking to watch.

The millionaires can build concrete-walled mansions that will withstand anything, but the poorest folks live in wooden houses that are often decades old. And they always pay the highest price when nature comes calling.

Takes me back to the mean season of 2004 down on the Treasure Coast, when Frances and Jeanne did their worst just three weeks apart. It took us a year to get things back to some semblance of normality. The wear & tear on our bodies and sanity was colossal.