As new buildings go up along the flood-prone Gulf coast at 15 to 20 feet off the ground, the future of Florida's ...

A filmy haze draped over South Florida early Monday as National Weather Service meteorologists braced the region for days of ...

We thought that an $880,000 investment would be worth its weight in gold — until October 10, 2018, when Hurricane Michael, a ...

Hurricane Michael destroyed everything ... But the people along Florida’s forgotten coast know the forward movement of Mexico Beach will go at its own pace as they rebuild into a more resilient ...

The two were among Mexico Beach residents who did not evacuate for Category 5 Hurricane Michael, which directly ... into the hurdles ahead of South Florida areas recently devastated by Category ...

Old-style Florida cinder block and stucco cottages ... reopened nearly four years after it was destroyed by Hurricane Michael. Mexico Beach now has a bank, a gas station, a restaurant, a hotel ...

Old-style Florida cinder-block and ... noting that Mexico Beach did not even have a set of traffic lights. Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 storm with 160-mph winds and a 14-foot storm surge ...

(AP) — Four years before Category 4 Ian wiped out parts of southwest Florida ... up,” Brudnicki said. Tiny Mexico Beach, which was nearly leveled by Michael in 2018, still has fewer ...

MEXICO BEACH — Almost four years after Hurricane Michael, Mexico Beach continues the slow walk down the long road to recovery. Sunset Park reopened Wednesday, the first park in the town to be ...

Related: Ground zero: See the damage Hurricane Michael inflicted on Mexico ... At daybreak on Oct. 10, 2018, Mexico Beach was a vision of old Florida. Concrete-block duplexes, level with the ...

One case in point: Mexico Beach, a town on the Florida Panhandle almost totally destroyed by a hurricane three years ago, is coming back. It was in October 2018 when Hurricane Michael made ...