Drone footage of some of the damage inflicted by Hurricane Michael shows a devastated middle school gymnasium’s wooden floor in Panama City, Fla.
The video, captured by ABC News, shows the walls blown off the sides of the gym; the drone then flies inside the decimated building and films the rubble, cinderblocks and standing water covering the wooden floor.
Hurricane Michael made landfall on the Florida Panhandle as the strongest storm to hit the U.S. since 1969. Its winds were powerful enough to bring down the walls of this middle school gymnasium in Panama City. https://t.co/OD36mMw5Ly pic.twitter.com/myALZjacdQ
— ABC News (@ABC) October 11, 2018
The Category 4 storm was the strongest storm to hit the Florida Panhandle in 49 years when it struck the area Oct. 10. The death toll from the hurricane had risen to 17 at the time this article was published, and more people were still unaccounted for, according to ABC.
