This week, though, the station has been broadcasting live each morning from the numerous hurricane-related disaster zones across the country as part of their “Storming Back” series on their AMHQ morning show, including highlights from Panama City to check in on Hurricane Michael survivors.

PANAMA CITY — Popular belief is, when The Weather Channel is in town, it’s bad news.

This week, though, the station has been broadcasting live each morning from the numerous hurricane-related disaster zones across the country as part of their “Storming Back” series on their AMHQ morning show, including highlights from Panama City to check in on Hurricane Michael survivors.

For The Weather Channel, the show represents coming full circle on the storms they so exhaustively cover at the time of the disaster.

“When severe weather hits, most media picks up stakes as soon as the storm is over,” said Nora Zimmett, Senior Vice President, Content and Programming at The Weather Channel television network. “But we at The Weather Channel know that when the storm ends, the rebuild is only beginning. We feel it is our mission to keep a spotlight on the survivors of these extreme events and continue to tell their stories in the weeks and months that follow. We know that many of these families feel the impacts of a storm long after the rest of the nation may have forgotten about it.”

On Monday, Meteorologists Jim Cantore and Stephanie Abrams, from their studio, interviewed Chad Gainey, who has been transforming Hurricane Michael-damaged trees and stumps into works of art all over the county.

“Even this far out from the storm, a lot of the customers I’m working for, they’re not able to live in their homes,” said Gainey during the interview. “They’re living somewhere else or they’re living in campers on their property.”

“It’s something they can have and they can kind of see the future of, “Okay, we made it through the storm and now we’re rebuilding,’” Gainey added.

On Wednesday, the show also broadcast live from Myrtle Beach to talk about efforts to honor heroes helping in the recovery from Hurricane Florence, which dumped over 30 inches of rain and caused catastrophic flooding and over $24 billion in damages in the Carolinas almost exactly a month before Hurricane Michael struck the Panhandle.

“Storming Back” has been airing weekday mornings this week and videos from the segments are available to watch on AMHQ’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/AMHQonTWC/.