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Hurricane Michael — a strong Category 4 storm — is packing maximum sustained winds of 145 mph as the Florida Panhandle braces for landfall Wednesday. 
  
 Michael was about 80 miles south-southwest of Panama City and about 85 miles west-southwest of Apalachicola, according to the 9 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center. It is moving north at 13 mph. 
  
 Water levels are rising quickly and winds increasing along the Panhandle as the “potentially catastrophic’’ storm approaches, the update said. 
  
 Hurricane-force winds extend up to 45 miles from Michael’s center, with tropical-storm-force winds as far as 185 miles away, the advisory said. A wind gust of 53 mph was reported recently at Apalachicola Regional Airport, the hurricane center said. 
  
 Michael's leading edge careened onto northwest Florida's white-sand beaches as a still-growing hurricane Wednesday, lashing the coast with tropical-storm-force winds and rain and pushing a storm surge that could cause catastrophic damage well inland once it makes 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 a foot of rain and a life-threatening storm surge of up to 13 feet. 
  
 The sheriff in Panama City's Bay County issued a shelter-in-place order before dawn Wednesday, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott tweeted that for people in the hurricane's path, "the time to evacuate has come and gone ... SEEK REFUGE IMMEDIATELY." 
  
 "We are in new territory," National Hurricane Center meteorologist Dennis Feltgen wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday. "The historical record, going back to 1851, finds no Category 4 hurricane ever hitting the Florida panhandle." 
  
 Florida officials said more than 375,000 people up and down the Gulf Coast had been urged or ordered to evacuate. 
  
 Only a skeleton staff remained at Tyndall Air Force Base, which is located on a peninsula just south of Panama City. The home to the 325th Fighter Wing and some 600 military families appeared squarely targeted for the worst of the storm's fury, and leaders declared "HURCON 1" status, ordering all but essential personnel to evacuate. The base's aircraft, which include F-22 Raptors, were flown hundreds of miles away as a precaution, a spokesman said in a statement. 
  
 Evacuations spanned 22 counties from the Florida Panhandle into north-central Florida. But civilians don't have to follow orders, and authorities feared many failed to heed their calls to get out of the way as the hard-charging storm intensified over 84-degree Gulf of Mexico water. 
  
 "I guess it's the worst-case scenario. I don't think anyone would have experienced this in the Panhandle," meteorologist Ryan Maue of weathermodels.com told The Associated Press. "This is going to have structure-damaging winds along the coast and hurricane force winds inland." 
  
 Maue and other meteorologists watched in real time as a new government satellite showed the hurricane's eye tightening, surrounded by lightning that lit it up "like a Christmas tree." 
  
 On the exposed coast of Florida's Big Bend, most of the waterfront homes stood vacant in Keaton Beach, which could get some of the highest water — seas up 9 feet (2.75 meters) above ground level. 
  
 "I know it's going to cover everything around here," said Robert Sadousky, who at 77 has stayed through more than four decades of storms. 
  
 The retired mill worker took a last look at the canal behind his home, built on tall stilts overlooking the Gulf. He pulled two small boat docks from the water, packed his pickup and picked some beans from his garden before getting out — like hundreds of thousands elsewhere. 
  
 The local geography — low-lying land and lots of areas where people live along waterways — means many people living inland could see their homes flooded as Michael makes landfall. 
  
 "We don't know if it's going to wipe out our house or not," Jason McDonald of Panama City said as he and his wife drove north to safety into Alabama with their two children, ages 5 and 7. "We want to get them out of the way." 
  
 Scott had warned of a "monstrous hurricane," and his Democratic opponent for the Senate, Sen. Bill Nelson, described a destructive "wall of water," but some officials didn't see any rush of evacuees ahead of the storm. 
  
 "I am not seeing the level of traffic on the roadways that I would expect when we've called for the evacuation of 75 percent of this county," Bay County Sheriff Tommy Ford said Tuesday. 
  
 In the dangerously exposed coastal town of Apalachicola, population 2,500, Sally Crown planned to hunker down with her two dogs. 
  
 "We've been through this before," she said. "This might be really bad and serious. But in my experience, it's always blown way out of proportion." 
  
 Mandatory evacuation orders went into effect in Panama City Beach and other low-lying areas in the storm's path. That included Pensacola Beach but not in Pensacola itself, a city of about 54,000. 
  
 Michael will weaken over land but could still spin off tornadoes and dump rain along a northeasterly path over Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia before its remnants head out to sea again. Forecasters said it could bring 3-6 inches of rain, enough to trigger flash flooding in places still recovering from Hurricane Florence. 
  
 sruiz@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5008 ||||| Krystal Day, of Homosassa, Fla., leads a sandbag assembly line at the Old Port Cove restaurant Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018, in Ozello, Fla. Employees were hoping to protect the restaurant as Hurricane Michael... (Associated Press) 
  
 Krystal Day, of Homosassa, Fla., leads a sandbag assembly line at the Old Port Cove restaurant Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018, in Ozello, Fla. Employees were hoping to protect the restaurant as Hurricane Michael continues to churn in the Gulf of Mexico heading for the Florida panhandle. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) (Associated Press) 
  
 PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Supercharged by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday with potentially catastrophic winds of 155 mph, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S. mainland. 
  
 Michael blew ashore near Mexico Beach, a tourist town about midway along the Panhandle, a lightly populated, 200-mile stretch of white-sand beach resorts, fishing towns and military bases. 
  
 Its winds roaring, it battered the coastline with sideways-blown rain, powerful gusts and crashing waves, swamped streets, bent trees, stripped away limbs and leaves and sent building debris flying. Explosions apparently caused by transformers could be heard. 
  
 "The window to evacuate has come to a close," Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Brock Long said. 
  
 The meteorological brute quickly sprang from a weekend tropical depression, becoming a furious Category 4 by early Wednesday, up from a Category 2 less than a day earlier. It was the most powerful hurricane on record to hit the Panhandle. 
  
 "I've had to take antacids I'm so sick to my stomach today because of this impending catastrophe," National Hurricane Center scientist Eric Blake tweeted as the storm — drawing energy from the Gulf's unusually warm, 84-degree water — grew more scary. 
  
 More than 375,000 people up and down the Gulf Coast were urged to evacuate. But emergency authorities lamented that many people ignored the warnings and seemed to think they could ride it out. 
  
 Diane Farris, 57, and her son walked to a high school-turned-shelter near their home in Panama City to find about 1,100 people crammed into a space meant for about half as many. Neither she nor her son had any way to communicate because their lone cellphone got wet and quit working. 
  
 "I'm worried about my daughter and grandbaby. I don't know where they are. You know, that's hard," she said, choking back tears. 
  
 Hurricane-force winds extended up to 45 miles (75 kilometers) from Michael's center. Forecasters said rainfall could reach up to a foot (30 centimeters), and the life-threatening storm surge could swell to 14 feet (4 meters). 
  
 The storm appeared to be so powerful that it is expected to remain a hurricane as it moves over Georgia early Thursday. Forecasters said it will unleash damaging wind and rain all the way into the Carolinas, which are still recovering from Hurricane Florence's epic flooding. 
  
 Meteorologists watched satellite imagery in complete awe as the storm intensified. 
  
 "We are in new territory," National Hurricane Center Meteorologist Dennis Feltgen wrote on Facebook. "The historical record, going back to 1851, finds no Category 4 hurricane ever hitting the Florida panhandle." 
  
 Colorado State University hurricane expert Phil Klotzbach said in an email: "I really fear for what things are going to look like there tomorrow at this time." 
  
 Scientists say global warming is responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme weather, such as storms, droughts, floods and fires. But without extensive study, they cannot directly link a single weather event to the changing climate. 
  
 With Election Day less than a month away, the crisis was seen as a test of leadership for Scott, a Republican running for the Senate, and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee for governor. Just as Northern politicians are judged on how they handle snowstorms, their Southern counterparts are watched closely for how they deal with hurricanes. 
  
 Hours ahead of landfall, seawater was already lapping over the docks at Massalina Bayou near downtown Panama City, and knee-deep water was rising against buildings in St. Marks, which sits on an inlet south of Tallahassee, Florida's capital. 
  
 Huge waves pounded the white sands of Panama City Beach, shooting frothy water all the way to the base of wooden stairs that lead to the beach. 
  
 More than 5,000 evacuees sought shelter in Tallahassee, which is about 25 miles from the coast but is covered by live oak and pine trees that can fall and cause power outages even in smaller storms. 
  
 Only a skeleton staff remained at Tyndall Air Force Base, situated on a peninsula just south of Panama City. The home of the 325th Fighter Wing and some 600 military families appeared squarely targeted for the worst of the storm's fury, and leaders declared HURCON 1 status, ordering out all but essential personnel. 
  
 The base's aircraft, which include F-22 Raptors, were flown hundreds of miles away as a precaution. Forecasters predicted 9 to 14 feet of water at Tyndall. 
  
 Evacuations spanned 22 counties from the Panhandle into north-central Florida. 
  
 "We've told those who stayed to have their life jackets on when the storm comes," Tress Dameron, Franklin County emergency management coordinator, told The News Herald in Panama City. 
  
 In St. Marks, John Hargan and his family gathered up their pets and moved to a raised building constructed to withstand a Category 5 after water from the St. Marks River began surrounding their home. 
  
 Hargan's 11-year-old son, Jayden, carried one of the family's dogs in a laundry basket in one arm and held a skateboard in the other as he waded through calf-high water. 
  
 Hargan, a bartender at a riverfront restaurant, feared he would lose his home and his job to the storm. 
  
 "We basically just walked away from everything and said goodbye to it," he said, tears welling up. "I'm freakin' scared I'm going to lose everything I own, man." 
  
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 Associated Press writers Tamara Lush in St. Petersburg, Fla.; Freida Frisaro in Miami; Brendan Farrington in St. Marks, Fla.; Russ Bynum in Keaton Beach, Fla.; Jonathan Drew in Raleigh, North Carolina; and Seth Borenstein in Kensington, Md., contributed to this story. 
  
 For the latest on Hurricane Michael, visit https://www.apnews.com/tag/Hurricanes . |||||
A:
"We are in new territory," National Hurricane Center Meteorologist Dennis Feltgen wrote on Facebook. "The historical record, going back to 1851, finds no Category 4 hurricane ever hitting the Florida panhandle." Hurricane Michael is making landfall just within that speed range—the upper end of it. The Orlando Sentinel reports the storm officially made landfall Wednesday afternoon near the tourist town of Mexico Beach, with 155mph winds that put it just below Category 5 status. The AP calls it "one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US mainland," and CSU meteorologist Philip Klotzbach gets much more specific. His findings, and more on the storm: Klotzbach tweets Michael is the 4th strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the continental US as ranked by maximum sustained wind speed, behind the Labor Day storm of 1935, Camille (1969), and Andrew (1992). As for the strongest ranked by minimum sea level pressure at landfall, Michael is No. 3, behind Labor Day and Camille and just above Katrina, he tweets.