MIAMI.- The image of the Rays stadium, The Tampa baseball team is perhaps one of the most compelling sequels in sight for now. of <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2024/10/live-video-of-hurricane-miltons-arrival-in-florida/" title="Live video of Hurricane Milton's arrival in Florida“>Hurricane Milton, which filled a coast still devastated by Heleneand struck cities with winds up to 160 km/h after producing a barrage of tornadoes.
After noon, Joe Biden’s government reported that the hurricane had caused at least 10 deaths. “In our opinion, these deaths were caused by the tornadoes” that were formed by the cyclone, said the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.
Authorities had previously spoken of six dead: four in St. Lucie County and two in St. Petersburg.
The stadium’s roof, a coated translucent fiberglass built to supposedly withstand winds of up to 185 kilometers per hour, Most of the leaves were removed, leaving bare the interior of the enclosure that was reserved for lifeguards.
The storm slipped slightly about 70 miles south of Tampa and made landfall on Siesta Keynear Sarasota, which today dawned like any other day, with barely a breeze.
On Wednesday night, the north side of Milton spewed incredible amounts of fresh water: around 45 centimeters in parts of the worst affected areas in just six hours. This led the National Weather Service to declare a flash flood emergency.
The hurricane It has already crossed the entire Florida peninsula, and it retired across the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Canaveral after dropping from category 3 to category 1 during the morning.
The storm caused a massive blackout throughout the state. More than 3.2 million homes and businesses were without power on Thursday morning, according to poweroutage.us.
South of Milton’s Eye, storm surge along the coast caused flooding. The extent of the damage is unclear, especially on the barrier islands most exposed to the gulf, But you can already see images of rubber boats with outboard motors that circulate through the streets as if they were rivers, rescuing people from the first floors, which were at the height of the water. The flood was at least 3.5 meters.
There are flooded streets where some car roofs can be seen, fallen trees blocking roads, and recumbent light poles whose cables touch the ground, or even worse, the water. 42 rescues have already been carried out in flooded homes and cars while the roads are being cleared to reach the most flooded areas.
There are open bridges that have not suffered damage, and others that have debris that must be removed first. “We don’t have confirmed death tolls, I know there were with the tornadoes, but it’s too early to say a number,” responded Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in his first press conference this morning.
“What we can say is that The storm was significant, but fortunately this was not the worst possible scenario”, he noted.
While the state analyzes the damage, a national newspaper spoke of 50,000 million dollars in losses, to which DeSantis replied: “how can they know if they haven’t visited the area and it was dark until a few hours ago?”
“We are doing damage assessment“We had worse scenarios and even some areas north of the hurricane have had low water,” the governor refuted. The authorities believe that The sea rise was not as high as expected.
Instead, tornadoes surprised the arrival of Miltonwhich were splashed especially on the east coast of Florida, which was not directly hit by the storm.
