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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/its-all-gone-tiny-florida-beach-town-nearly-swept-away-by-hurricane-michael/2018/10/12/f1a110c0-ce56-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ab1e9d6b6095



Janet Kinch, who has had a home on the beach since 1989, returned for the first time Friday afternoon and was stunned into silence when she saw what Hurricane Michael had wrought. The foundation stilts remained, but almost nothing else — she found the peach and aqua tiles from her floors across the street, and she began hunting for the brand-new refrigerator.

“There’s my new screen door,” she said, looking behind the carcass of a nearby home. This was the second time she was sifting through the remnants of a destroyed house; she and her husband rebuilt here after Hurricane Opal swept their home away in 1995. “My husband just died two weeks ago. Oh, I can’t believe this. The house is gone for the second time.”

Cathey weathered the storm in his family’s home, and after the winds subsided he staggered outside to see his entire neighborhood destroyed.

“I guess this is what they call devastation,” he said, amid the ruins of the family store. “When you live on the coast, there’s a price to be paid for that.”