Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach and Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida on October 10, 2018.
Michael was the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States as a category 5 since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and only the fourth on record.
The others are the Labor Day Hurricane in 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969.
Michael is also the strongest hurricane landfall on record in the Florida Panhandle and only the second known category 5 landfall on the northern Gulf coast.
At least 74 deaths were attributed to the storm, including 59 in the United States and 15 in Central America.
Just weeks after landfall, the recovery largely fell out the national news cycle.
The struggles residents endured to rebuild homes and get full claims from insurance companies, and the millions of dollars municipal governments faced in debris hauling costs, mostly went unmentioned by major outlets besides a handful of stories.
Such will be, unfortunately, the plight of those recently hard hit in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, as well as the looming storm, set to hit the Florida coast, over the next day or two.
