Cleanup underway in Tampa after Milton

AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reports from Tampa, Florida, where Hurricane Milton made a mess of trees and buildings.

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00:00Downtown Tampa spared the worst in terms of the surge thanks to being on the north side of Hurricane Milton.

00:06But folks are busy cleaning up from the winds that roared through here late last night.

00:14Police and other maintenance crews were cleaning up all across Tampa throughout the day,

00:18mainly clearing out a lot of the tree debris that was left around.

00:21Trees were blocking some lanes of traffic and some roads entirely closed.

00:25The biggest damage that we saw came from one particular building in downtown

00:28where part of the wall collapsed, bricks littering the street, forcing people to detour around that.

00:33Crews say it was going to take a few days to get that cleaned up as well.

00:36That the most significant damage we saw in the Tampa area.

00:39Out in Clearwater Beach just off to the west, a more pristine day than we saw on Wednesday

00:45with Hurricane Milton coming through.

00:47Folks busy looking for shells, kind of the fun thing to do in the aftermath of the storms.

00:52Folks will be cleaning up from this and Helene in the weeks to come.

00:56Unfortunately, back-to-back storms leaving their mark for folks here along the west coast of Florida.

01:00Reporting from downtown Tampa for AccuWeather, I'm meteorologist Tony Laubach.