Severe storms produce significant damage in Panama City Beach

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A sprawling winter storm hit the South with strong thunderstorms and tornado warnings that blew roofs off homes and tossed about furniture Tuesday and brought cities across the Midwest to a standstill with more than half a foot of snow, stranding people on highways.

The violent storm with 55 mph winds and hail moved through the Florida Panhandle and into parts of Alabama and Georgia by sunrise Tuesday, along with at least several reports of radar-confirmed tornadoes, the National Weather Service said. A wind gust of 106 mph was recorded before dawn near the coast in Walton County, Florida.

“We still have potentially strong storms in that area through (Tuesday) morning and the potential for more severe weather and tornadoes,” meteorologist Lance Franck in Tallahassee said.

Keep reading on the storm damage in Panama City Beach and the Florida Panhandle: https://www.wtsp.com/article/weather/severe-weather/florida-panhandle-panama-city-beach-tornado-storm-system/67-24976b53-0a0e-44a9-8f6c-946e1ad82919

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  1. The foundation of that house turning sideways like that. 😮
    Something is wrong. Even if there is a tornado. I can see a roof or half a house falling. Not tipping sideways. Other houses didn't do that.

  2. The panhandle had good ol boy building codes. We have very strict ones where I live but still lost home owners twice in 23. I've had FEMA insurance for 25 years and never filed a claim. GOfundmepage is Fl insurance now.

  3. That condo that is tipped over is roughly 5103 Gulf Drive, right between dual high rise structures. I'll bet the wind was amplified between those structures to cause this much damage.

  4. Since Florida used it's own money to transport legal migrants from Texas instead of reserving for actual issues, I vote no disaster relief funding for them. They want to act like a federal agency, let them deal with their own problems.

  5. I am praying for these people. I wonder also, are houses that new not built to withstand a hurricane? Nothing perfect but, I actually thought newer structures would handle it better.

  6. 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
    26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

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