Hurricane Milton unleashes destructive storm surge flooding on Florida's west coast

Extreme storm surge led to widespread flooding late on the evening of Oct. 9, ramping up in the hours after Hurricane Milton's landfall

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00:00Take a look at this.

00:02Flat out, terrifying storm surge.

00:04This neighborhood in Venice, just water about to the door handles, I think, of a car

00:10inside of this mobile home community here in Venice Bay.

00:14Just impressive to see that storm surge coming up and over.

00:17That's Fort Myers leading into Sanibel.

00:20These are the streets in downtown Sarasota.

00:22Parts of downtown Sarasota are underwater.

00:25I mean, this is just unbelievable, the situation that we just found ourselves in in Sarasota.

00:30We are on an island out here in my hotel, surrounded by cars that are in the water.

00:35Look at this.

00:36This looks like a raging river.

00:37This is unbelievable.

00:39And it is coming in very, very fast.

00:42The city is underwater.

00:44It is terrifying.

00:46Oh, my gosh.

00:48Oh, my gosh.

00:49All right, they made it out.

00:50Flooding nearly on every single street here.

00:54And it's just going to be another catastrophe, unfortunately, after we've made it to where

00:59we lost the goal to make landfall just north of here.