Hurricane Milton hurled rain, tornadoes and tropical storm-force winds at the U.S. coast Wednesday as it approached Florida.
. The storm is set to make landfall late Wednesday on the state's west coast, threatening life and property with towering storm surges, devastating winds and catastrophic flooding.on the Florida Gulf Coast near Tampa and St. Petersburg, the National Hurricane Center said in its 7 p.m. ET update. Milton had maximum sustained winds of 120 mph and was about 35 miles west-southwest of Sarasota, the NHC said.Sign up for NBC DFW's News Headlines newsletter.
"It’s time to shelter-in-place from #Milton. Tropical-storm force winds, flooding rains, and tornadoes are spreading inland across FL. Unless a life-threatening situation arises, stay indoors and follow updates," "And that's going into everywhere, and going to be damaging homes more, knocking out windows, taking out cars, and I don't know who to call," Marie Deering, a resident in Apollo Beach, just 17 miles south of Tampa, told NBC News.in Tampa that he doesn’t want to be here to see what damage the debris does from not being picked up.The storm landed on the Mexican Caribbean coast on Tuesday, bringing strong winds that knocked down trees and disrupted power lines across Quintana Roo.
In conversations earlier today, the heads of the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center warned of the hurricane's devastating potential, he said. Biden has approved an emergency declaration for Florida, and U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor said 7,000 federal workers were mobilized to help in one of the largest mobilizations of federal personnel in history, The Associated Press reported.
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