Long road to recovery ahead for Florida residents after Milton

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Cleanup is underway in Sarasota, Florida, with lingering flooding and debris after Hurricane Milton on Oct. 10. Storm chaser Connor McCrorey offers the latest aftermath updates in the area.

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00:00there's quite a bit of street flooding here kind of making its way into some of these buildings

00:03behind me it appears this goes all the way down uh down the road here into the neighborhood there

00:08were just some emergency crews down there some fire trucks and police officers uh apparently

00:13helping out so they just took off but yep long uh long road ahead to get back to normal here

00:21on our being in sarasota uh have you seen anyone out or do you think the people who

00:25have stayed put are respecting what a lot of officials are saying with just to stay indoors

00:30right now there are many people out and about you hope that they have some relatively urgent

00:36business to attend to rather than just going sightseeing because obviously with the recovery

00:42efforts just getting underway we do need to try to keep those roads as clear as possible

00:47all right connor so looking at the uh conditions out there you know we talked about some of the

00:52worst conditions now how would you rate as far as the overall impacts that you have seen here

00:57not just for milton but compared comparing milton to other hurricanes as far as the flooding

01:02the storm surge and the wind damage how would you rate what you have seen so far from milton

01:08it's significant i've seen some pretty intense hurricanes i was in panama city beach area for

01:14hurricane michael in 2018 the category 5 so it can be tough to compare to something like that but

01:20one other thing to note is that this part of florida is really built pretty well to withstand

01:25these kinds of storms so even with a pretty intense storm like the one that we saw yesterday

01:30fortunately you don't send them tend to see too much damage to the buildings themselves i've seen

01:35some minor roof damage some uh tingles missing from some from some buildings some sheet metal

01:40roofs torn off things like that but overall the structural damage seems relatively uh relatively

01:47contained limited to some of those weaker structures so it it was a good it was a

01:51good intense hurricane here but you know they weathered it okay

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