Memoirs of Michael – Page 11 – You have seen the devastation, now read the stories of those who survived Hurricane Michael and are committed to rebuilding

On duty

His story. I heard my wife scream. Her voice was muffled by the wind and then the line went dead. I had stepped back into my bedroom in the fire house to take her call. I sat for a second with the phone in my hand calling her name into the receiver. I told my […]

Hurricane A Team

The waiting room doors to the emergency department at Bay Medical were the first to blow out. The ambulance bay doors started to rattle. We were afraid they were going to blow out too. I am an emergency medicine physician at Bay Medical Center at the main hospital and at the Panama City Beach ER. […]

We have a flat roof. Or had.

We have a flat roof. Or had. We had a flat roof. It sounded like someone was stomping on it and then the whole roof peeled back. It was raining all around us. The kids and I went into a small hallway outside our bedroom and stayed there until the ceiling in the living room […]

Gone. It’s all gone.

Our entire house was destroyed. We almost didn’t evacuate. My husband came home from a work trip in the last seat, on the last flight back into Panama City before the hurricane hit. He walked in the door and said we are leaving. I had pretty bad morning sickness and wasn’t as productive as I […]

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