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US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tour damage from Hurricane Michael in Lynn Haven, Florida, October 15, 2018. SAUL LOEB / AFP

 

President Donald Trump on Monday toured areas of Florida devastated by Hurricane Michael last week, and met some of the thousands of people still struggling to survive without running water or electricity.

Flying in the Marine One presidential helicopter over Mexico Beach, one of the towns worst hit by the Category 4 storm, Trump surveyed uprooted trees, rows of roofless homes, some of them torn from their foundations, downed water towers and a parking lot where 18-wheel trucks had been scattered like children’s toys.

“It is incredible, the power of the storm,” Trump said in televised remarks. “Somebody said it was like a very wide, extremely wide tornado. That’s really what this was. This was beyond any winds that they’ve seen.”

Michael smashed into Florida’s western coast on Wednesday, packing winds of 155 miles…



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