Unlike many properties in the area, the five-bedroom, five-bathroom house - known to its owners as Sand Palace - was built to endure 250 mile-an-hour winds. The home's most notable feature are ...

and christened their creation the Sand Palace of Mexico Beach. They also installed an outdoor security camera. Its video footage became the only view of their property as Hurricane Michael ...

a two-story structure known as Sand Palace that had been built a year prior. The remaining homes were either wiped out or stripped down to their shoddy foundations. Much of this damage could have ...