Category 4 Hurricane Michael Roars Nearer To Florida Coast

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Michael swirled onto the Florida Panhandle as a still-growing Category 4 hurricane Wednesday, pushing a storm surge onto the coast’s white-sand beaches and lashing the coast with tropical storm-force winds and rain in its final hours before making landfall.
The unexpected brute quickly sprang from a weekend tropical depression and grew swiftly into the worst hurricane in recorded history for this stretch of the Florida coast, carrying destructive wind, up to