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Homes and streets flooded successful Siesta Key, wherever Milton made landfall, connected Thursday
Hurricane Milton near down powerfulness outages, demolition and immoderate fatalities aft making landfall overnight Wednesday arsenic a large class 3 hurricane.
The tempest brought with it winds implicit 100mph and one-in-a-thousand-year rainfall. As overmuch arsenic 18 inches fell successful immoderate parts of Florida's westbound coast, with dense downpours crossed the authorities and successful adjacent Cuba.
As it travelled inland crossed the Florida peninsula, Milton maintained class 1 spot with sustained winds up to 90mph. It mislaid immoderate powerfulness erstwhile implicit onshore aft its vigor was fueled by the lukewarm Gulf of Mexico waters.
Storm surges and tornadoes led to extended flooding, with much expected successful the coming days. Several radical have been killed, with tornadoes successful Lucie County claiming 4 lives earlier Milton made landfall.
Officials crossed Florida ordered evacuations arsenic the tempest approached, and much than 3 cardinal homes and businesses reportedly mislaid powerfulness overnight Wednesday.
As residents and responders proceed rescue operations and surveying damage, we look astatine the interaction of Hurricane Milton successful pictures.
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Trees fell and streets flooded successful Osprey, Florida
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Residents had to wade done floodwaters aft dense rainfall successful Punta Gorda
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The tempest caused superior harm to spot successful St Pete Beach
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Volusia Sheriff's peculiar ops squad helped evacuate residents successful South Daytona amid the devastation
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A crane crashed into the Tampa Bay Times gathering aft precocious winds lashed St Petersburg - nary 1 was wrong astatine the time
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Cocoa Beach felt the effects of Hurricane Milton, including harm to a subdivision of Wells Fargo slope
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The Tropicana Field shot stadium successful St Petersburg was being utilized arsenic a structure for archetypal responders until its extortion was ripped disconnected - fortunately nary 1 was injured
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Amid the devastation, exigency services responded to scenes of fallen postulation lights successful Orlando
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A tornado that formed successful St Lucie arsenic Hurricane Milton approached ripped into the mini mart of a section state station
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The hurricane tore done Wellington, knocking down trees and damaging buildings
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The entity lit up successful Sarasota arsenic an electrical installation was damaged Wednesday night
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Havana saw flooding pursuing dense rainfall arsenic Milton passed adjacent to the Cuban seashore Wednesday
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There were affectional scenes successful Fort Myers connected Wednesday, aft a tornado caused by the approaching tempest damaged parts of the city
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Havana residents watched the waves crashing against the Malecon promenade arsenic the tempest passed connected Wednesday
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