Gov. Rick Scott says Hurricane Michael has changed lives forever, and "many families have lost everything." He says "this hurricane was an absolute monster."
Florida officials also said Florida's big mental hospital in Chattahoochee is "entirely cut off" by land, so they're dropping food and supplies in from the air.
The mental hospital has a section that houses the criminally insane, but they say the facility itself has not been breached.
In Panama City, Bay County emergency management officials say most roads remained blocked by water or debris Thursday morning, so survivors in the should "stay put and standby."
As for people outside the disaster zone, they're asking people moved by images of the destruction to make monetary donations to relief organizations, rather than sending supplies.