Hurricane Michael made landfall along the Florida Panhandle as a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday afternoon and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 60mph.
The massive storm is one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the US and the strongest in history to make landfall along the Florida Panhandle.
When Michael smashed into the coastline yesterday, debris was strewn across miles of Florida’s coastline.
Roofs and awnings peeled back from buildings, pieces of homes scattered amid snapped trees and downed power lines and chunks of beaches were washed away.
So far two people have been confirmed dead due to Hurricane Michael.
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A man trapped inside his home after a tree fell on the roof was believed to be the first death related to the hurricane after it hammered the coast of Florida.
And a child in Lake Seminole, Georgia, was confirmed as the second victim late Wednesday.
The child reportedly died when a tree fell into a house.
The death was announced by Travis Brooks, the head of the county’s emergency management agency.
More than 600,000 were without power across the region on Wednesday night and officials warn that some areas could be without power for weeks.
Gulf Power spokesperson Jeff Powers said: “In the hardest-hit areas, the possibility exists that we will be rebuilding our system while we are restoring power.
“Customers in the high impact areas could be without power for weeks.”
Vance Beu, a resident of Panama City told a pine tree branch made a hole in the roof of the apartment he shares with his mother.
He said: “It was terrifying, honestly. There was a lot of noise. We thought the windows were going to break at any time.
“We had the inside windows kind of barricaded in with mattresses.
“We did whatever we could to kind of hunker down.”
This comes as the city of Tallahassee, Florida reported that over 200 roads are impassable due to downed trees.
And some roads may also be blocked by downed power lines.
As of 2 am EDT Thursday, Michael was about 25 miles east of Macon, Georgia, packing maximum sustained winds of 60 mph.
Nearly 30 million people in the Southeast were in its crosshairs.
The National Hurricane Centre said: “On the forecast track, the core of Michael will move across central and eastern Georgia this morning, and then over southern and central South Carolina later today.
“Michael will then move northeastward across the southeastern United States and then move off the Mid-Atlantic coast by early Friday.
“Michael will steadily weaken as it crosses the southeastern United States, but it is forecast to re-strengthen some when it moves off the east coast of the United States and becomes apost-tropical cyclone on Friday.”