Hurricane Michael

Hurricane Michael was the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States since Andrew in 1992. With peak winds of 160 mph, Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida and decimated the Florida coast line before moving into Georgia as a Cat 3. Numerous homes were flattened and trees felled over a wide swath of the panhandle with storm surge reaching 14 ft in Mexico Beach.Of the 1,692 buildings in the city, 1,584 were damaged, and 809 among those were destroyed,

With infrastructure destroyed and electric grids down for weeks, residents in the impacted areas had no way to access food and water. Salvation Army teams from across the country and as far away as Canada, were on the ground for eight weeks, providing hot meal services and much needed emergency relief supplies. Over 70 mobile feeding units deployed across Florida, Georgia and Alabama and numerous emotional and spiritual care specialists were active in the region.