| | Hurricane Michael will go down in history as the third-strongest to hit the U.S. mainland in recorded history after making landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 colossus with sustained winds of 155 mph â just 2 mph short of iconic Category 5 status. Michael weakened to a tropical storm Thursday but continued to wreak havoc across the Southeast after leaving two dead and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed in the Florida Panhandle and parts of Georgia. Power outages affected almost 700,000 customers in Florida and Georgia. Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina reported more than 160,000 outages.
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