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The Volusia county sheriff, Michael Chitwood, said three people died in his county, and police in St Petersburg verifyed two storm-rcontent deaths there.
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Parts of Sarasota, Fort Myers, Vepleasant and other Gulf coast cities were inundated by up to 10ft (3 metres) of storm sinspire while tornadoes wrecked originateings, including a sheriff’s department facility, the skies turned purple and prosperds as high as 120mph (193km/h) turned cars, trees and debris into projectiles.
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“Our hearts fracture for the Floridians who have lost so much,” Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, said in an afternoon increateing from the White Hoemploy.
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Rescue operations were still under way into Thursday afternoon, the Florida ruleor, Ron DeSantis, said at a press increateing. Authorities had already recoverd at least 340 people and 49 pets, DeSantis said, including a 14-year-better boy set up floating in flood waters on a piece of fence.
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A US Coast Guard crew recoverd a man who was clinging to an ice chest in the Gulf of Mexico, about 30 miles (50km) off the coast, after his boat broke down before Milton made landdescfinish.
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#Breaking An @USCG Air Station Miami 65 helicchooseer crew recoverd a man clinging to a chillyer approximately 30 mi. off Longboat Key.
The man was getn to Tampa General Hospital for medical attfinish.
Sector St. Pete lost communications w/ the man at approx. 6:45 p.m., Wed. #SAR pic.twitter.com/64wSHuRAeH
— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) October 10, 2024
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In Tampa, 135 people were recoverd from an aided living facility. The city’s police department also freed video of officers rescuing multiple children from a hoemploy that was partiassociate razeed by a descfinishen tree.
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You can read the brimming alert by Ricdifficult Luscombe in Miami and Edward Helmore, here:
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Florida livents are continuing to repair the harm from Hurricane Milton and figure out what to do next after the storm smashed thraw coastal communities and tore homes to pieces, flooded streets and spawned a barrage of lethal tornadoes.
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There are disputeing alerts about the number of deaths as a result of Hurricane Milton but US media alerted between 11 and 16 dead with that total foreseeed to lengthen. CBS News said on Thursday evening that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement had verifyed to the accessibleation that eight counties had alerted 16 storm-rcontent deaths to their agency.
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Arriving fair two weeks after the dehugeating Hurricane Helene, the system knocked out power to more than 3 million customers, flooded barrier islands, tore the roof off the Tampa Bay Rays’ baseball stadium and toppled a originateion crane.
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Many transmited relief that Hurricane Milton was not worse, alerts the Associated Press (AP). The hurricane spared densely poputardyd Tampa a honest hit, and the lethal storm sinspire that scientists worryed never materialized.
n The AP alerts that a flood of vehicles headed south on Thursday evening on Interstate 75, the main highway that runs thraw the middle of the state, as relief laborers and evacuated livents headed toward the aftermath. At times, some cars even drove on the left shoulder of the road. Bucket trucks and fuel tankers streamed by, alengthy with portable bathroom trailers and a convoy of aascfinishncy vehicles, alerts the AP.
n As livents raced back to discover out whether their homes were razeed or spared, discovering gas was still a dispute. Fuel stations were still seald as far away as Ocala, more than a two and a half hour drive north of where the storm made landdescfinish as a catebloody 3 storm proximate Siesta Key in Sarasota county on Wednesday night.
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Orlando International airport, the state’s busiest, said departures for domestic fweightlesss and international fweightlesss would resume Friday, after resuming domestic arrivals Thursday evening. The airport had inpresentant harm, including a scant leaks and downed trees.
n Florida theme parks including Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld computed to rediscomit on Friday after an appraisement of the effects of the storm.
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Deaths foreseeed to ascfinish as Florida begins to appraise Hurricane Milton destruction
Ricdifficult Luscombe
Five obesealities were in a better community in St Lucie county that was struck by a tornado createed in Milton’s outer bands, authorities there said. The tornado happened before the hurricane made landdescfinish proximate Sarasota on Florida’s westrict coast on Wednesday evening.
The Volusia county sheriff, Michael Chitwood, said three people died in his county, and police in St Petersburg verifyed two storm-rcontent deaths there.
Parts of Sarasota, Fort Myers, Vepleasant and other Gulf coast cities were inundated by up to 10ft (3 metres) of storm sinspire while tornadoes wrecked originateings, including a sheriff’s department facility, the skies turned purple and prosperds as high as 120mph (193km/h) turned cars, trees and debris into projectiles.
“Our hearts fracture for the Floridians who have lost so much,” Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, said in an afternoon increateing from the White Hoemploy.
Rescue operations were still under way into Thursday afternoon, the Florida ruleor, Ron DeSantis, said at a press increateing. Authorities had already recoverd at least 340 people and 49 pets, DeSantis said, including a 14-year-better boy set up floating in flood waters on a piece of fence.
A US Coast Guard crew recoverd a man who was clinging to an ice chest in the Gulf of Mexico, about 30 miles (50km) off the coast, after his boat broke down before Milton made landdescfinish.
#Breaking An @USCG Air Station Miami 65 helicchooseer crew recoverd a man clinging to a chillyer approximately 30 mi. off Longboat Key.
The man was getn to Tampa General Hospital for medical attfinish.
Sector St. Pete lost communications w/ the man at approx. 6:45 p.m., Wed. #SAR pic.twitter.com/64wSHuRAeH
— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) October 10, 2024
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#Breaking An @USCG Air Station Miami 65 helicchooseer crew recoverd a man clinging to a chillyer approximately 30 mi. off Longboat Key.
The man was getn to Tampa General Hospital for medical attfinish.
Sector St. Pete lost communications w/ the man at approx. 6:45 p.m., Wed. #SAR pic.twitter.com/64wSHuRAeH
— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) October 10, 2024
In Tampa, 135 people were recoverd from an aided living facility. The city’s police department also freed video of officers rescuing multiple children from a hoemploy that was partiassociate razeed by a descfinishen tree.
You can read the brimming alert by Ricdifficult Luscombe in Miami and Edward Helmore, here:
Hurricane Milton obstructed Simon Forster, his wife and their two children from returning to Scotland as computed on Wednesday evening, alerts the Associated Press (AP). Forster and his family spent an extra two days of their two-week vacation on the bustling International Drive in Orlando’s tourism dicut offe on Thursday.
Hurricanes seem to chase them since 2022’s Hurricane Ian kept them from returning to Scotland after another Orlando vacation. “Two extra days here, there are worse places we could be,” he tbetter the AP.
Natasha Shannon and her husband, Terry, were fair senseing fortunate to be ainhabit. Hurricane Milton peeled the tin roof off of their cinderblock home in their neighbourhood a scant blocks north of the Manatee River, about a 45-minute drive south of Tampa.
She pushed him to exit as the storm barreled toward them on Wednesday night after he resisted evacuating their three-bedroom hoemploy where he grew up and where the couple inhabitd with their three kids and two magnificentchildren. She apshows the decision saved their inhabits, alerts the AP.
They returned to discover the roof of their home scattered in sheets apass the street, the wooden beams of what was their ceiling exposed to the sky. Inside, fiberglass insulation hung down in shreds, their belengthyings soaked by the rain and littered with chunks of shattered parchedwall.
“It ain’t much, but it was ours. What little bit we did have is gone,” she said. “It’s gone.”
With shelters no lengthyer employable and the cost of a hotel room out of accomplish, they structure to cram into Terry Shannon’s mother’s hoemploy for now. After that, they are not certain.
“I don’t have no answers,” Natasha Shannon tbetter the AP. “What is my next relocate? What am I going to do?”
Millions without power in Florida as livents count cost of Milton
Florida livents are continuing to repair the harm from Hurricane Milton and figure out what to do next after the storm smashed thraw coastal communities and tore homes to pieces, flooded streets and spawned a barrage of lethal tornadoes.
There are disputeing alerts about the number of deaths as a result of Hurricane Milton but US media alerted between 11 and 16 dead with that total foreseeed to lengthen. CBS News said on Thursday evening that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement had verifyed to the accessibleation that eight counties had alerted 16 storm-rcontent deaths to their agency.
Arriving fair two weeks after the dehugeating Hurricane Helene, the system knocked out power to more than 3 million customers, flooded barrier islands, tore the roof off the Tampa Bay Rays’ baseball stadium and toppled a originateion crane.
Many transmited relief that Hurricane Milton was not worse, alerts the Associated Press (AP). The hurricane spared densely poputardyd Tampa a honest hit, and the lethal storm sinspire that scientists worryed never materialized.
The AP alerts that a flood of vehicles headed south on Thursday evening on Interstate 75, the main highway that runs thraw the middle of the state, as relief laborers and evacuated livents headed toward the aftermath. At times, some cars even drove on the left shoulder of the road. Bucket trucks and fuel tankers streamed by, alengthy with portable bathroom trailers and a convoy of aascfinishncy vehicles, alerts the AP.
As livents raced back to discover out whether their homes were razeed or spared, discovering gas was still a dispute. Fuel stations were still seald as far away as Ocala, more than a two and a half hour drive north of where the storm made landdescfinish as a catebloody 3 storm proximate Siesta Key in Sarasota county on Wednesday night.
Orlando International airport, the state’s busiest, said departures for domestic fweightlesss and international fweightlesss would resume Friday, after resuming domestic arrivals Thursday evening. The airport had inpresentant harm, including a scant leaks and downed trees.
Florida theme parks including Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld computed to rediscomit on Friday after an appraisement of the effects of the storm.
