17 dead, power outages affect 1.5 mil. after Hurricane Michael

At least 17 people had been killed and more than 1.5 million households affected by power outages as of Friday in the wake of Hurricane Michael, U.S. media reported.The storm, one of the most powerful hurricanes in U.S. history, continued to cut a destructive path as a tropical storm, having weakened after lashing Georgia and North Carolina.The hurricane ranked 4 on the five-category Saffir-Simpson scale when it made landfall on the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday.A senior official of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the number of casualties could rise further.Emergency officials…READ FULL ARTICLE