More than 1 million without power as Hurricane Milton slams Florida

Hurricane Milton crashed into Florida as a Category 3 storm Wednesday, pounding the coast with ferocious winds of over 100 mph, heavy rain and producing a series of tornadoes around the state. Tampa avoided a direct hit.

The cyclone had maximum sustained winds of 120 mph as it made landfall at 8:30 p.m. near Siesta Key, the National Hurricane Center said. Siesta Key is a prosperous strip of white-sand beaches home to 5,500 people about 70 miles south of Tampa.


The Tampa Bay area has not taken a direct hit from a major hurricane in more than a century, but the storm was still bringing a potentially deadly storm surge to much of Florida’s Gulf Coast, including densely populated areas such as Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Fort Myers.


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[Flyfreenow]

Reporter needs to get speech therapy.. tongue tied

[chapinisaiasarriaza]

I used to unloud shrimp boats there i feel sorry for all the poor people that lives there in boats mobil homes .plus the home less people.