Mexico Beach, Florida: Rescue crews confronted with shattered roads, fallen trees and kilometres of ruins struggled on Friday to get to Florida Panhandle communities hardest hit by Hurricane Michael, saying they expected the death toll of 14 to rise.
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| This photo released by the Orange County Sheriff's Office shows a Florida school bus that ploughed through a fence and into a backyard pool after a collision, but no one on board was hurt. |
None of the confirmed 14 fatalities were reported from the ocean front communities, such as Mexico Beach, Port St. Joe and Panama City, that bore the brunt of the storm's wrath, and rescuers have so far been unable to conduct thorough searches there.
Read the story from The Age by Rod Nickel - “Death toll in Hurricane Michael continues to rise.”
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