Florida beach town rushing to clean up piles of debris from Helene with Milton bearing down

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Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack reported from Treasure Island, Florida, on Oct. 7, where large piles of debris still lined the streets from Helene's damage just days before Milton's landfall.

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00:00I am here on Treasure Island, Florida, on the west coast of Florida Peninsula, just

00:06west of Tampa, and it is an incredible, unbelievable, sad scene here on Treasure Island.

00:16You can see behind me piles and piles of debris on the road, and this is the scene all across

00:23Treasure Island.

00:25But homes and businesses all along Treasure Island are gutted out with debris everywhere

00:32along the road and giant piles of sand because they were just recently impacted by Hurricane

00:37Helene, a major hurricane that hit further to the north near Perry, Florida.

00:41But I have never seen, in all my years of chasing, a scene like this where devastation

00:46has occurred recently, and yet another major hurricane is coming, it's making its way to

00:53this location here, making landfall on Wednesday, late on Wednesday.

00:58And it's going to be already a strong, powerful storm that causes problems.

01:02You know, when a major hurricane comes through, that wind will send debris flying, but it

01:07takes time for it to rip that debris free.

01:09But here on Treasure Island, there's just piles and piles of debris, missiles about

01:17to be tossed likely into the buildings here on Treasure Island, causing even more immense

01:22damage, including the potential for devastating surge flooding here on Treasure Island.

01:27It's an apocalyptic scene here, something that I have never seen before.

01:33Aaron Jayjack reporting for AccuWeather, Treasure Island, Florida, tracking major hurricane

01:38known.

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