Hurricane Milton plowed across Florida, pounding cities with ferocious winds and rain, whipping up a barrage of tornadoes and causing an unknown numbers of…
Milton is still producing hurricane-force winds and heavy rainfall as it pulls away from the Space Coast of Florida , the National Hurricane Center said on its 8 a.m. ET advisoryHurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida, pounding cities with ferocious winds and rain, whipping up a barrage of tornadoes and causing at least nine deaths.
The fabric that serves as the roof of Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team in St. Petersburg,. It was not immediately clear if there was damage inside. The stadium was suppose to serve as a basecamp for 10,000 first responders and workers brought to the area to deal with the aftermath of the storm. It is not clear how many people were inside the venue when it was damaged.
Just inland from Tampa, the flooding in Plant City was “absolutely staggering,” according to City Manager Bill McDaniel. Emergency crews rescued 35 people overnight, said McDaniel, who estimated the city received 13.5 inches of rain. In contrast, city workers on Anna Maria Island were grateful not to be wading through floodwaters as they picked up debris Thursday morning, two weeks after Helene battered buildings and blew in piles of sand up to 6 feet high. Those piles may have helped shield homes from further damage, said Jeremi Roberts of the State Emergency Response Team.
Before Milton even made landfall, 150 tornadoes touched down across the state. The Spanish Lakes Country Club near Fort Pierce, on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, was hit particularly hard, with homes destroyed and two residents killed. Tom Reynolds, 90, said the tornado “picked up a car and thrown it across the road.” It also blew house into another street, temporarily blocking it. Reynolds spent Thursday morning sweeping out the four feet of mud and water the surge deposited in his two-story home and collecting the large chunks of his home’s aluminum siding that had been ripped off by the tornado. He said plans to clean up his house, which he built three decade ago, get it fixed and stay.
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