Hurricane Michael is now a Category 4 storm, and it made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, on the Panhandle.
“Hurricane Michael is a catastrophic and unprecedented event,” the Tallahassee office of the National Weather Service warns. No Category 4 storm on record has ever hit the Florida Panhandle, which includes Tallahassee, Florida’s capital city, with a population of 382,000.
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