Hurricane Milton devastated the Gulf Coast earlier this season leaving a path of destruction and at least 24 people dead in the state of Florida.
The Tampa, Sarasota, and Gainesville areas were some of the most impacted, with citizens being left homeless due to flooding and the storm surge. Power outages have caused an estimated 3 million Florida residents to lose their electricity the day after the storm.
Small tornadoes were reported across the coast in Port St. Lucie, and 126 tornado warnings were issued within the state on a single day.
It has taken weeks for these communities to clean up debris from their streets, and may take months to rebuild public structures.
Milton was not the first major Atlantic hurricane this season as Hurricane Helene made its way up to North Carolina only a week earlier and killed at least 234 people.
However, Hurricane Milton’s winds were significantly stronger. It is now categorized as the fifth strongest hurricane to have ever developed in the Atlantic.
These storms seems to have finally neared their end, but nothing is certain as NOAA predicted earlier this fall that the hurricane season would be more intense than usual.
