MEXICO BEACH, FLA.—With stunned faces and tears, residents of hard-hit Mexico Beach returned home for the first time Wednesday about a week after Hurricane Michael hit to find pieces of their lives scattered across the sand and a community altered. Nancy Register weeps as she is comforted by Roxie Cline, right, after she lost her home and all the contents inside to Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Fla. on Wednesday. In a state of condominium towers, Mexico Beach was one of the few remaining places with small houses and a 1950s feel. ( Gerald Herbert/The Associated Press )Residents among the community of about 1,200 people who rode out the storm at home have been in Mexico Beach since Michael hit. In Mexico Beach, what had been a town of about 1,200, residents don’t expect power or anything else anytime soon.

Source: thestar October 18, 2018 15:06 UTC