With winds of 120 mph, deadly flooding, and $50 billion in damages, Hurricane Milton strikes Florida.

 

Hurricane Milton storm occurred in the United States on October 9,made landfall as a Category 3 storm. This happened in the state of West Coast Florida the aftermath of the hurricane was deadly and caused intense damage causing financial losses up to 34 billion dollars to rebuild homes and roads

there were at least 117 tornado warnings and 120mph winds in Florida houses lost power, catastrophic flooding, and some were completely demolished leaving vehicles submerged in water no hope of returning to their homes. There are at least 24 victims that passed away due to the storm.

A tropical disturbance that began in the western Caribbean Sea and consolidated in the Bay of Campeche on October 5 gave rise to Milton. Early on October 7, it became a hurricane after slowly growing as it moved eastward followed in the wake of hurricane Helene

The $50 billion mark for direct losses is a threshold that differentiates “truly historic events,” said Adam Smith, it's going to be a very hard recovery for the state of Florida

 

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