Rebuilding & Recovery
Four years after Hurricane Michael, Panama City, Fla. is replanting, rebuilding: It’s been nearly four years since Hurricane Michael ripped through Florida’s panhandle, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake that’s still being felt.
“We lost 80 percent of our trees,” said Greg Brudnicki, mayor of Panama City, a municipality of around 30,000 people on Florida’s panhandle. He estimated the number of trees the city lost was “close to a million—four out of five were gone.”