More Than Three Million Without Power as Hurricane Milton Slams Florida, Causing Deaths and Flooding

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Hurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida, where it knocked out power to more than 3 million people and whipped up 150 tornadoes.

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00:00Around 8 30 last night, Milton Hurricane Milton made landfall near

00:05Siesta Key in Sarasota County. It moved quickly across central florida

00:10overnight, producing significant flooding and damaging winds near its

00:13path. The storm did bring much destruction and damage. Tornadoes

00:19ravaged parts of the east coast of the state. Flooding occurred on the west

00:22and east coast and strong winds lashed the state, especially in Pinellas,

00:27Hillsborough, Manatee and Sarasota counties. We had over 80,000 people

00:33that were into shelters overnight as the storm hit the state. We will

00:39better understand the extent of the damage as the day progresses on. You

00:45have people that are out there assessing damage right now. First

00:48responders have been working all through the night to help people who

00:52were in distress. And what we can say is the storm was significant. But

00:57thankfully, this was not the worst case scenario. I couldn't even sleep

01:01for a full two hours. I woke up like every 30 minutes, but I'm just glad

01:06we're out and to safety and to where we can charge up our phones because I

01:10don't have any power because of my family is probably wondering where I'm

01:14at. The funny thing is, is we thought the storm was over. When you looked

01:17at the radar, the backside, we knew we were kind of in the eye, but we

01:21thought the worst was over because there was nothing really radar wise on

01:25the backside. And the second half was the worst. That's where our walls were

01:31flexing on our house. We didn't know how we were gonna do. I think when

01:35you're from Florida, you don't expect that it's gonna be as bad. You know

01:39what I mean? We've been through 100. Well, not hundreds, but we've been

01:42through a bunch of them, and they've never been this bad. So you kind of

01:46think it's gonna be the same.

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