At least two deaths were reported at a retirement community
FLORIDA - Hurricane Milton marched across Florida on Thursday, whipping up deadly tornadoes, destroying homes and knocking out power to more than 3 million customers, but the Tampa Bay metropolitan area appeared to have escaped without the catastrophic flooding that had been feared.
The storm hit Florida's west coast on Wednesday night as a Category 3 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, with top sustained winds of 120 mph. While still a dangerous storm, this was less violent than the rare Category 5 hurricane that had threatened the state as it trekked over the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida.
The eye of the storm had hit land in Siesta Key, a barrier island town of some 5,400 people off Sarasota about 60 miles south of Tampa Bay. Businesses, residential streets and highways in Lee County on the southwest coast were flooded, footage from the Lee County Sheriff's Office showed. "All this happened instantaneous, like these windows blew out," he said. "I grabbed the two dogs and run under my bed and that was it. Probably one minute total."
Trucks had been running 24 hours a day to clear mounds of debris left behind by Helene before Milton potentially turned them into dangerous projectiles, DeSantis said.
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