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Panhandle residents feel forgotten as aid, media attention lacking

‘We have fallen by the wayside’ says one town’s mayor

By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press
Published: March 2, 2019, 5:45pm

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — It was nearly five months ago that one of the most intense hurricanes ever to make landfall in the continental United States devastated large parts of the Florida Panhandle — recent enough that displaced residents are still living in tents and empty foundations still stand in place of the homes that were ripped from their lots.

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