Sky correspondent assesses Hurricane Milton damage in Florida

Hurricane Milton has crashed into Florida with 120mph winds, leaving millions of people without power.

Sky's US correspondent Mark Stone, has been assessing the damage caused in Punta Gorda in Florida, just south of where the eye of the storm hit.

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[schrodingerscat]

From what I can gather, this storm was considerably less sever than many had predicted. While it was bad, it hasn't caused anything, like the level of damage originally predicted and most problems such as major power outages are due to the flimsy cables and transformers on poles kind of infrastructure in the area rather than the severity of the storm.

[alexburt-lp]

The media seem sad it wasn't worse!.

[h]

No waves, no wind, no moving tree leaves

[danielfunygomes]

Nothing from this storm, can be considered dangerous as they been talking!

[davidmarchant]

Lot of people about for a unsurvivable hurricane

[jondiaz]

I was watching live when the outer bands hit and tornados were dropping like crazy. Like 1 warning every 5 minutes. It was nuts. Never saw anything like that before.

[queefchiefwiggam]

Went from cat 5 hurricane to fizzy and over cast

[Yinnyanglol]

Does he get paid by the “uh” dangerous drinking game too 😂

[LillyJacob-lr]

Better to hear “we have just arrived” than getting reporting during the disaster. It’s really time to stop forcing reporters into those insane conditions as though a remote, unmanned camera couldn’t give an adequate visual without endangering reporters the way they do.

[davidt]

It's not possible to have a 10' surge where he is. The boats would have gone.

[melvinp]

the rest of boats are ok hahahahahahah - dont try and fool us

[jimjogger]

Pretty sure the damage in this was not from last night, Theyve drove around and looked for something that looks bad, The storm was bad but no damage was caused, Few cables down, few trees down but no damage to anything, People were talking about a 10ft Tsunami coming through towns.... Honestly just a embarrassing over exageration.

[BingoBongoBingerz]

Assessing the damaging. By spending the entire time by a boat... Could of drove around and sent a drone up for the true scale

[mymydelilah]

Mark Stone, Sky's News Correspondent, the best one to describe Milton's after-effects..."they dodged the bullet here...the structural damaged not as bad as people fear..", well said, indeed.

[kevinhansford]

All rookie numbers as according to BBC weather we have consistent winds in excess of 16 thousand miles per hour for the next few days lol 😆

[davidmansfield]

If only there was some way of moving a boat to somewhere safer.

[earnestequivocation]

First four articles are about a storm 4200 miles away……where do we live?

[ydnallah]

All the other boats moored up seems to be perfectly fine, more likely poor seamanship

[johnwilkinson]

I was thinking damn this storm sounds like its gonna be biblical, very lucky it weakened substantially before landfall 🙌🙌

[kirstenwright]

Why would anyone want to live in America