Coast Guard boat and aviation units deployed along the Florida Panhandle coast a day after Hurricane Michael slammed Panama City, before moving swiftly northeast over the still-sodden Carolinas.
The storm center made landfall around 2 p.m. Wednesday near Mexico Beach, a resort town about 24 miles east of Panama City. Brock Long, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, called the town “ground zero” for the hurricane impacts and said it was virtually wiped out.
A massive search and...