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PHOTO+VIDEO/ Hurricane Mliton is hitting Florida, strong storms and rain  

2024-10-09 21:57:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

PHOTO+VIDEO/ Hurricane Mliton is hitting Florida, strong storms and rain  

Hurricane Milton is battering Florida's west coast, spawning tornadoes and lashing the region with rain and wind hours before it makes landfall near Tampa Bay, where it could bring a threatening rise in seawater to coastal communities already battered by hurricane Helene.

Millions of people along a stretch of more than 300 miles (483 km) of coastline were under evacuation orders just two weeks after Hurricane Helene struck. Authorities issued increasingly dire warnings on Wednesday as landfall, expected around midnight, drew closer.

PHOTO+VIDEO/ Hurricane Mliton is hitting Florida, strong storms and rain  

Sarasota County Emergency Management Chief Sandra Tapfumaneyi said people remaining on the islands south of Tampa likely won't survive the predicted 10 to 15 feet of storm surge.

Driven by unusually warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, the storm was on a collision course to hit the Tampa Bay metropolitan area, home to more than 3 million people.

PHOTO+VIDEO/ Hurricane Mliton is hitting Florida, strong storms and rain  

Milton was expected to maintain hurricane strength as it crossed the Florida peninsula, posing a storm risk along the Atlantic coast as well. The National Weather Service confirmed that at least five tornadoes touched down in South Florida in the early afternoon.

Four bridges spanning Tampa Bay were closed before the storm made landfall, according to the website Florida 511. Almost everyone who decided to flee appeared to have done so, as most roads in nearby St. Petersburg were nearly closed. desert by midday wednesday.

PHOTO+VIDEO/ Hurricane Mliton is hitting Florida, strong storms and rain  

Most roads connecting the Gulf islands to the mainland were also closed, trapping anyone who decided to flee the storm despite pleas from officials./ CNA

 





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