How Hurricane Michael became catastrophically strong overnight
After intensifying overnight, Hurricane Michael is now pummeling the Florida Panhandle as a Category 4 storm — the strongest hurricane on record to ever strike the region. Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as Michael’s winds top speeds of 155 miles per hour, NBC News reports. Recommended: Seconds from Disaster 911 Full Documentary - Decentralized Cuckoo Video Player cuckoo://QmeXQofiuWVM3oHoDVJW86sZrpEoAEkinEYUCaoJ41DQ9Y.video Storm surge is expected to bring flood waters reaching 14 feet high — and the Panhandle is already experiencing “life threatening storm surge, hurricane force winds, and heavy rainfall,” the National Hurricane Center says. For those who stayed put, it’s time to seek shelter out of the way of waves and wind, Florida Governor Rick Scott warned on Twitter: “The time for evacuating along the coast has come and gone.” The storm is unusually strong because of a few things: warm water in the Gulf, favorable wind conditions, and humi...