Hurricane Milton caused damage with flooding and power outages in Brevard, while wind gusts reached up to 125 mph.
Milton intensified to a speed of 255 km/h at 9 p.m. that day, with its strength doubling within 24 hours. A hurricane warning and storm surge advisory have been issued for parts of Florida, with a high likelihood that the area will be affected within the next 28 hours. It was announced that Milton is expected to make landfall in Florida on the night of the 10th, striking near Tampa Bay, where over 3 million people reside. Although Milton may weaken slightly before making landfall, it is expected to grow in size and remain a powerful hurricane even after landfall. It was reported that this is the second deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in the past 50 years, following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which claimed at least 1,833 lives.
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Hurricane Milton tore the roof off Tropicana Field, slammed a tower crane into a downtown St. Petersburg building and spun up tornadoes that killed people on the opposite coast from where it made landfall while cutting a destructive path across Central Florida.
Officials and residents were just beginning to tally the damage and death toll early Thursday. The heavily populated Tampa Bay area appeared to have escaped devastating storm surge, but barrier islands along the Gulf Coast reported heavy flooding. In Sarasota, Milton uprooted trees, stripped the sides off buildings and tossed yachts onto the waterfront.
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