Hurricane Milton felled trees, tore roofs off buildings, and flooded streets, leaving residents of the Florida coast surveying a trail of destruction on Thursday, in a state still reeling from another massive storm two weeks earlier.
Over three million Florida homes and businesses were without power after the weather front made landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday near Siesta Key on the US state’s western coast.
As the eye of the storm blew past the peninsula, communities were still contending with strong winds, heavy rainfall, and possible flash floods.
Milton triggered tornadoes before its arrival, with unconfirmed reports of multiple fatalities after one twister struck a retirement community on Florida’s east coast.
“We had multiple tornadoes touch down here in the Spanish Lakes community and we have lost some life,” St. Lucie County sheriff Keith Pearson told WPBF News.
Pearson also posted a video on his department’s Facebook …