There were some victories.
Classes will resume Monday at Florida State’s sprawling, 40,000-student campus in Tallahassee and several other area universities.
State offices also reopened.
In the Bay County communities of Panama City and Mexico Beach, where the strongest hurricane to hit the Panhandle since record-keeping began slammed onto the coast four days earlier, search-and-rescue crews accompanied by dogs solemnly picked through the rubble of shattered neighborhoods The storm killed at least 17 people, including one in Mexico Beach.
"If we lose only one life, to me, that’s going to be a miracle," Mexico Beach Mayor Al Cathey said.
More: ‘Like a bomb crater’: Pilots survey damage from Hurricane Michael More than 170,000 power customers in Florida remained in the dark Sunday, including more than half the homes and businesses in Bay County.
"We will open our schools as soon as is feasible, but right now the county is focused on a humanitarian mission."
Bay Medical Sacred Heart Hospital had "significant" damage that required evacuation of patients, CEO Scott Campbell said.
The state Department of Corrections said 2,600 inmates were evacuated from the Gulf Correctional Institution and Annex.
"We’re all in this together," Tallahassee Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum tweeted Sunday.