Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast as a powerful Category 3 storm, bringing destructive winds, heavy rainfall, and dangerous storm surge. The hurricane caused widespread power outages, flooding, and at least six deaths. While the damage is significant, officials say it could have been worse.
Hurricane Milton made landfall along Florida ’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm, bringing 120 mph winds, storm surge, and flooding. It weakened as it moved through the state late Wednesday into Thursday, leaving widespread power outages and at least six deaths. The storm surge impacted heavily populated areas, including Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, and Fort Myers.While it caused a lot of damage and water levels may continue to rise for days, Gov.
3 million homes and businesses were without electricity as of 9 a.m. ET, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utility reports, and that number was unchanged several hours later.Several Central Florida counties were reporting over 70% of customers without power. Rural Highlands and Hardee counties were over 90% out.Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays, appeared to be badly damaged early Thursday.
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