This is where the damage and recovery caused by Hurricane Michael is more than a week later

It's been nine days since Hurricane Michael, one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States in nearly 50 years, landed. Most of the damage was caused by the coastal towns of the Florida Panhandle, where winds of 155 km / h and a storm surge cut off power lines and left thousands of people without access to food and water .

In Florida's most-affected Bay County region, residents of Mexico Beach were allowed to return home for the first time on Wednesday to study the extent of the damage caused by the storm.

Here are the figures today:

The death toll reached at least 30 people across the southeastern United States. Twenty of these deaths have been confirmed in Florida, six in Virginia, one in Georgia and three in North Carolina, reported the Associated Press.

More than 124,000 customers in Florida and Georgia are still without electricity. This number has dropped by more than one million in the southeast at its peak. Some areas of hurricane-ravaged areas in Florida may not have power restored for a week or two, reports Reuters.

The mobile phone service is being restored, but remains uneven in some areas. Earlier this week, Florida Governor Rick Scott called Verizon for the pace of restoration. On Wednesday, the service finally resumed for residents of Panama City and the company announced that it would offer three months of free service to customers in Bay and Gulf counties.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has delivered to Florida residents approximately 2.9 million meals and more than 3.4 million liters of water. According to a FEMA press release, more than 2,600 families and households have also registered for their individual disaster assistance program.

Damage to agriculture could reach 2.8 billion dollars in Georgia alone. Large losses are expected in the cotton and timber industries in Georgia, the Georgia Department of Agriculture said in Georgia. In Florida, about 1 million acres of field crops were affected by the hurricane, 90% of cotton crops and 40% of groundnut crops are expected to be threatened, according to the Institute of Food Science and agriculture at the University of Florida.

And after: The damage continues to be assessed and hundreds of people are still waiting for news of friends and missing relatives.

Reuters reported that officials in Florida have not yet reported the number of missing persons – a figure that remains difficult to gauge with limited communications in some areas. But a private volunteer organization is working on some estimates.

CrowdSource Rescue, the Houston-based online platform that coordinates volunteer rescue missions in the region, told Reuters that she was looking for more than 1,135 missing persons on Wednesday. CrowdSource announced Thursday that it has reduced the number of missing people to 548. Matthew Marchetti, co-founder of the platform, said he expects a decrease in the number of people here by the weekend, as that the state of the roads and the signal of the mobile phones improve.

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