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October 17, 2018

Can you rebuild ‘mom-and-pop' Fla. town?

  • For decades, the town has persisted as a stubbornly middlebrow enclave on what some refer to as Florida's Forgotten Coast.
    • By RUSS BYNUM
    Associated Press

    MEXICO BEACH, Fla. — Hurricane Michael swamped Dena Frost's mobile home and obliterated the shop where she sold pottery beside the main highway running through Mexico Beach. Most of her neighbors saw similar destruction.

    The monstrous storm wrecked the mayor's hardware store and the only grocery in this Gulf Coast town of about 1,000 people. It splintered beachfront condos and smashed the inn that has welcomed tourists for four decades. It reduced seafood restaurants to rubble and literally broke the bank.


     
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