“We’re back to frontier days,” said Jean Lipford, 50. More than 250,000 customers across Florida were still without power on Saturday. The sky darkened, the power went out, the wind howled and she felt the whole structure shift on its foundation. Because Marianna is so far from the coast — nearer to Alabama than to Panama City — residents did not evacuate, he said. Davis said she didn’t know how poorer people will cope in the aftermath of the storm.

Source: Washington Post October 14, 2018 00:09 UTC