Hurricane Milton plowed into Florida as a Category 3 storm, bringing misery to a coast still ravaged by Helene
A crane is seen across 1st Avenue South near the Tampa Bay Times offices in St. Petersburg, Florida Hurricane Milton has crashed into Florida as a Category 3 storm, pounding the coast with violent winds of over 160 kph and creating a series of tornadoes around the state.
A growing number of people were without electricity as Milton’s high sustained winds, powerful gusts and intense rain continued into the early morning hours. Robert Haight looks around his destroyed house after it was hit by a reported tornado in Fort Myers, Florida The cyclone had maximum sustained winds of 120mph when it roared ashore in Siesta Key, south of the populated Tampa Bay region, the National Hurricane Center said.
The weather service uses something called the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to estimate potential property damage caused by a hurricane’s sustained wind speed. Hurricane Milton is spawning tornadoes across Florida, generating powerful storm surges and brutal winds. Footage showed successive transformers detonating through the street and causing loud bangs. Huge sparks were also seen flying through the air.Footage posted on social media has shown the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Milton as locals reeled from the damage to their homes.
Orlando police officers and firefighters are the latest officials to temporarily remove themselves from the roads ahead of the threat of 120mph winds. President Joe Biden has condemned former president Donald Trump’s “onslaught of lies” about how the federal government was dealing with the damage from Hurricane Helene as successor Hurricane Milton made landfall.
Asked why he believed his Republican opponents were making false claims about the emergency response, Mr Biden said: “I don’t know. I simply don’t know. … I use a phrase more than I did in my whole career, un-American. It’s un-American. It’s not who in the hell we are.”The roof of the Tropicana Field stadium – home of baseball team the Tampa Bay Rays – in St Petersburg appears to have been destroyed by Hurricane Milton’s 120mph winds.
More than two million homes are without power, according to online trackers, as some locals sought to shield themselves from the hurricane in their houses while others bunkered down in evacuation centres.
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