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They asked people to avoid power lines that fell to the ground and not to go through flooded areas. They urged residents and visitors to keep emergency phone lines open and, in some areas, to boil their water or use bottled water. They told them to put the generators at least 15 feet from homes and stay indoors.
In Tallahassee, the state capital, they even asked people to avoid flushing their toilets.
"This will help reduce the flow in the system until the power is restored," the city said in a post on Twitter.
Above all, the managers seemed to ask for time and space.
"We are asking the evacuees to be patient at the beginning of the recovery," the Bay County government in Florida wrote Thursday. "You're not sure you're coming back and that would hinder the progress of our first responders."
A family in Panama Beach has survived a nightmare
As the hurricane devastated Wednesday a suburb of Panama Beach suburb called Cherokee Heights, Fatima Zogaj found herself stuck in a ruined house all around her and her family.
Ms. Zogaj, 41, and her husband, Ahmed Alsaqqa, had not thought much about the question of whether they should stay home before the storm. They bought their brick six-bedroom brick house about three years ago, far from the coast and in a neighborhood of brick houses of recent construction and sturdy structure.
"We did not expect it to be that bad," Ms. Zogaj said Wednesday night, standing outside in a neighborhood of broken trees, flooded lawns and torn roof tiles.
The couple, Ms. Zogaj's mother, and their four children encountered little trouble in the first hour of the storm as the wind began to whip and scream. But soon, the rain, blowing on the side, began to flee through the window of a guest room located on the second floor. Their roof tiles began to fly away.
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