Hurricane Michael stories

Our area just weathered a major hurricane.  You may have heard of it?  Hurricane Michael which came ashore at one mile shy of a Category 5. 
Although we were on the right side, and luckily, only got the side of Michael, there was wide spread storm surge here and houses were literally washed out.
These are just a few pictures from that day.
At the end of our street, the main highway was filled with debris from two houses whose contents had washed out and onto our main highway.

And yet, we, who lived just a block or so from the highway were spared, however those on the coast got a stark reminder of the sheer force of a storm surge.
I stood there in bemusement, and shock.  And then remembered I had a camera and took the following pictures.
a fridge, surrounded by cushions and other pieces of the house.

 The force of the storm water washed this water heater into the middle of the road and as you can see behind it, the roof from a shed was also deposited.

 Looking towards the water

 One of the houses,

 The other house

 A close up of the second house.

as you can see the water was still pounding their rip rap. 

 the highway looking to our left

 with a little closer look at a tree and other debris blocking the road

 and looking to the other side

 And the amazing part, to me at least, was that the next day, someone had been out with a bobcat or bulldozer or something and had cleared at least one lane of the highway. 

Also a big thank you to the linemen and power company who actually got power to us a few short days later. 

We were lucky here, very lucky.  Some did lose homes, and many lost trees and had some damage to their homes but we did not experience the wide spread destruction that occurred at Mexico Beach.