audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - A week after Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle, the extent of the storm's fury is still being assessed as the death toll rises and rescuers search for the missing in the worst hit areas. Michael has killed at least 35 people across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. 15 of those deaths were in Florida's Bay County, where the hurricane made landfall as a Category 4 storm. The damage is massive to one of the few remaining towns in Florida where small beach houses were built on concrete slabs, giving Mexico Beach a 1950s feel. Virtually all of those homes were destroyed by the powerful hurricane, wiped clean from their foundations by the devastating storm surge.Authorities fear some people who did not evacuate could be buried beneath collapsed buildings. The Florida Department of Health provided an online form to report those who are still unaccounted for, trapped or in need of help. While the exact number of the missing is still unknown, officials hope they will know more as electricity and phone services are gradually restored across the Panhandle.
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October 10, 2018 - Cedar Key, Florida, U.S. - Flood waters from a combination of high tide and a surge from category four Hurricane Michael fill residential streets.
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October 10, 2018 - Port St. Joe, Florida, U.S. - Boats lay sunk and damaged at the Port St. Joe Marina in the Florida Panhandle after Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach. The storm lashed the coast with 155 mph winds, just shy of a Category 5 storm.
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October 11, 2018 - Panama City, Florida, U.S. - Destroyed boats are seen at the City Marina in Panama City, the day after Hurricane Michael landed in the Florida Panhandle.
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October 12, 2018 - Mexico Beach, Florida, U.S. - A helicopter flies along the coast as a portion of Highway 98 is seen crumbled. Residents of the small beach town of Mexico Beach began to make their way back to their homes some for the first time.
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October 18, 2018 - Apalachicola, Florida, U.S. - TJ WARD looks at the destroyed shucking room at the 13 Mile Oyster House, 13 miles outside of Apalachicola. The oyster house has been in the Ward family since 1957 and will have to be rebuilt after the damage caused by Hurricane Michael.
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October 11, 2018 - Mexico Beach, Florida, U.S. - Vehicles belonging to James Murphy, Cindy Murphy and their renter, lay in a tangled mess on Thursday relocated by Hurricane Michael's violent storm surge and wind as it made landfall on Wednesday in the Florida Panhandle.
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October 12, 2018 - Mexico Beach, Florida, U.S. - An American flag is displayed using sandbags in the coastal township of Mexico Beach, population 1200, which lay devastated on Friday after Hurricane Michael made landfall on Wednesday in the Florida Panhandle.
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October 11, 2018 - Panama City, Florida, U.S - An armed man guards a damaged building the day after Hurricane Michael landed in the Florida Panhandle.
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October 11, 2018 - Panama City, Florida, U.S - Destruction is seen along US Road-231, including a massive train derailment, in Panama City, the day after Hurricane Michael landed in the Florida Panhandle.
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October 11, 2018 - Panama City, Florida, U.S. - Debra Adams and her kids, residents at Massalina Memorial Homes, a low-income community talk about the situation that they are in the day after Hurricane Michael landed in the Florida Panhandle.
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October 12, 2018 - Mexico Beach, Florida, U.S. - Where homes once stood there is debris and destruction caused by category four Hurricane Michael.
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October 12, 2018 - Mexico Beach, Florida, U.S. - A childhood picture of Robert Baker Jr. and two of his siblings remains in his childhood home in the coastal township of Mexico Beach which was devastated when Hurricane Michael made landfall.
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October 11, 2018 - Mexico Beach, Florida, U.S. - Emergency workers Dr. PATRICIA CANTRELL, left, and ANA KAUFMANN, with the South Florida Search and Rescue Task Force 2, survey damage at the western edge of town at Mexico Beach, population 1200, which lay devastated on Thursday after Hurricane Michael made landfall the day before.
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October 12, 2018 - Mexico Beach, Florida, U.S. - Robert Baker Sr., 82, who is paralyzed below the waist, is removed from his son's home by emergency workers in the coastal township of Mexico Beach which was devastated when Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle.
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October 17, 2018 - Mexico Beach, Florida, U.S. - A home hit by Hurricane Michael stands in Mexico Beach.
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October 16, 2018 - Oldsmar, Florida, U.S. - The third of three manatees is captured and examined by rescuers. Rescuers with FWC, Clearwater Marine Aquarium, ZooTampa and University of Florida Veterinary program caught three manatees that were seen in a pond in the Mobly Bayou Preserve that borders the north end of Tampa Bay in Oldsmar. It is believed the manatees floated into the pond during a high tide caused by hurricane Michael and couldn't swim back out to the bay. The manatees are being caught, examined and then released into Tampa Bay.
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October 10, 2018 - Panama City, Florida, U.S - Mike Lindsey, owner of the Elegant Endeavors Antique Emporium, checks damages to his family store in the downtown area after Hurricane Michael made landfall along Florida's Panhandle.
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October 11, 2018 - Mexico Beach, Florida, U.S. - LEE CATHEY, 37, (L-R) AL CATHEY, 71, and CHARLES SMITH, 56, survey damage in the coastal township of Mexico Beach, which lay devastated after Hurricane Michael made landfall the day before in the Florida Panhandle. Al Cathey who is the mayor of Mexico Beach, believes 280 residents rode out the storm in their homes.
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October 11, 2018 - Port St. Joe, Florida, U.S. - CINDY MURPHY, 58, left, finds a rolling pin while searching for her husband JAMES MURPHY'S, 65, medication in what remains of their home on a coastal stretch of Port St. Joe. The couple's dog, J.J., at right, survived, but they have ben unable to locate their cat. Cindy was surprised to find the rolling pin, which did not belong to her and was among dozens of items from others homes which were displaced by Hurricane Michael's violent storm surge and wind as it made landfall on Wednesday in the Florida Panhandle.
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October 12, 2018 - Mexico Beach, Florida, U.S. - A sign touts solidarity among residents of the coastal township of Mexico Beach, population 1200, which lay devastated two days after Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle.
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October 18, 2018 - Wausau, Florida, U.S. - Standing in downtown Alford, a few miles from Wausau, MICHAEL HOYT describes surviving Hurricane Michael in his home outside town.
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