The storm is expected to make landfall on Wednesday just weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the same area.
The hurricane, which is rapidly intensifying into one of the area's most powerful on record, was forecast to make landfall on Wednesday. It would threaten a stretch of Florida's densely populated west coast that is still reeling from the devastating Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago. A direct hit on the area would be the first since 1921, when the now-sprawling Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area was a relative backwater.
Forecasts of 127 to 254 mm or more of rainfall threatened flash flooding farther inland. Some of the area's three million residents rushed to dispose of mounds of debris left by Helene before heeding the evacuation orders. Milton is forecast to remain an extremely dangerous hurricane after landfall in Florida, causing catastrophic damage and power outages expected to last days.
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