Hurricane survivors wander debris, search for the missing
(WorldNews Environment)

MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Tom Garcia watched in terror as fingers of water pushed inland across the beach and began filling up his home. His wife handed him a drill and Garcia used screws to pin his front and back door shut. But soon the storm surge from Hurricane Michael was up to his chest. His dogs sat on his bed as it floated. He said it took all of his strength to hold his sliding door shut as the waters outside the glass rose higher than those flooding the house. “It was life or death,” Garcia said through tears Friday as he walked amid the destruction in Mexico Beach. Michael was one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever make landfall in the U.S., and this Gulf Coast...