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A man peers into the remains of a home on Manasota Key in Englewood, Florida, on Sunday, October 13.

Updated 8:23 PM EDT, Sun October 13, 2024

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene left more than 230 people dead in the Southeast, another massive hurricane hit Florida.

Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key on Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm, bringing extreme rainfall, high winds and widespread power outages.

Itcould become one of themost destructive stormson record for Florida’s Gulf Coast, and its disastrous impacts are being felt over much of the state.

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A family walks back up a sand-coated street on Saturday, October 12, after checking on their storm-damaged home on Manasota Key.

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A toppled tree lies on a home on Manasota Key on Saturday.

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Connie Gore, left, is comforted by her friend and neighbor Cecelia Smith on Friday, October 11, after a tornado caused by Hurricane Milton devastated her home in Martin County, Florida.

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Stranded vehicles are viewed in a flooded Daytona Beach, Florida, neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, on Friday.

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Houses sit destroyed in Port St Lucie, Florida, on Friday after a tornado hit the area and caused severe damage as the hurricane swept through.

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Robert Turick stands in one of his home's bedrooms, where the high water mark from Hurricane Milton can be seen on the wall, in Englewood, Florida, on Friday. A small positive, Turick said, is that he hadn't yet begun repairs after Hurricane Helene brought 3-foot flood waters, and he, his dog, and his daughter were staying elsewhere when Milton flooded his home around to 5 feet.

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A rescue team checks a damaged property on Manasota Key on Friday.

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A person walks through a flooded street from the rising Anclote River in New Port Richey, Florida, on Friday.

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The rails of a pool ladder are all that is visible Friday of a pool that was filled with sand after the passage of Hurricane Milton in Venice, Florida.

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This bridge in Riverview, Florida, seen on Friday, was damaged by Milton.

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A man cleans debris inside a gas station in Lakewood Park, Florida, on Thursday, October 10. A tornado caused by Milton hit the area.

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A tree toppled by the storm lies atop a home in Siesta Key, Florida, on Thursday.

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Boats are piled up on a pier after they were washed ashore when Milton passed through Punta Gorda, Florida, on Thursday.

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Liz Kelly and her son Matt salvage items from their destroyed home in North Fort Myers, Florida, on Thursday. A tornado associated with Hurricane Milton ripped through their neighborhood. Matt dove on top of his mother as the roof was peeling off the home. She says he saved her life.

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A vehicle drives though a flooded street in Siesta Key on Thursday.

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Members of the Volusia Sheriff's Office rescue residents from a flooded area of South Daytona, Florida, on Thursday.

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A house lies toppled off its stilts after Milton passed through Florida's Bradenton Beach.

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The roof of Tropicana Field, destroyed by Milton, was shredded in St. Petersburg on Thursday. Tropicana Field is the home of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays.

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Austin Stolpe clears mud from the floor of the Celtic Ray Public House after it was inundated with floodwaters in Punta Gorda.

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People look at an uprooted tree in Odessa, Florida, on Thursday.

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A man cleans sand off a beach-side condominium unit in Venice on Thursday.

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Cars move slowly through Matlacha, Florida, on Thursday after Hurricane Milton damaged power lines.

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A person rides a bicycle past a damaged building in the Palmetto Beach neighborhood of Tampa on Thursday.

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A boat and debris are seen along a road in Bradenton, Florida, on Thursday.

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People walk near damaged beachside property in Venice on Thursday.

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The building that houses the Tampa Bay Times newspaper was damaged when a construction crane fell during the storm in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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People are rescued from an apartment complex in Clearwater on Thursday.

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Debris clogs a roadway in Siesta Key on Thursday.

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A satellite image captures Hurricane Milton reaching the coast of Florida on Wednesday, October 9.

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A man in Sarasota, Florida, records the storm as it makes landfall on Wednesday.

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The Segundo family, who evacuated from nearby Davis Island, plays a board game at a hotel in Tampa on Wednesday.

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Brandon Marlow walks through a flooded street in Fort Myers, Florida, on Wednesday.

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Marie Cook reacts to her damaged home after a tornado formed by Milton touched down in Wellington, Florida, on Wednesday.

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Stephen Lundgren lies on the floor of the Vanguard High School cafeteria as he tries to get some sleep at the Ocala, Florida, shelter on Wednesday.

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Ron Rook, who said he was looking for people in need of help or debris to clear, walks down a deserted street in downtown Tampa on Wednesday.

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Check-in kiosks are covered in protective plastic at Orlando International Airport on Wednesday. The airport ceased operations at 8 a.m. Wednesday.

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Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies attend to residents affected by a reported tornado in Wellington on Wednesday.

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People walk through the Disney Springs shopping complex in Orlando ahead of the hurricane's arrival on Wednesday.

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Payton Wyse and Andrew Goncharsky pack what they can as they evacuate their Fort Myers apartment on Wednesday.

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Christian Burke stands at the door of his home in Gulfport, Florida, on Wednesday. Outside, a boat sits on its side due to Hurricane Helene.

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A Lee County deputy sheriff talks to a driver near the Fort Myers Beach bridge, which was closed on Wednesday.

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Connor Ferran surveys what is left of his Fort Myers home after what appeared to be a tornado tore the roof off on Wednesday. Milton spawned several tornadoes as it neared landfall.

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Nicolette Mariano, CEO and aquaculture biologist for her oyster farm, Treasure Coast Shellfish, secures oysters from the farm's dockside nursery in Sebastian, Florida, on Wednesday.

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An employee of Roofs Done Right attaches metal shutters to a building in Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday.

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Ted Carlson puts McKenzie, a cat belonging to his friend Evan Purcell, into a pickup truck as they evacuate Purcell's home on Florida's Anna Maria Island on Tuesday, October 8. "This place couldn't handle Helene," Carlson said. "It's all going to be gone."

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Members of the Florida Army National Guard check for any remaining residents in nearly deserted Bradenton Beach on Tuesday. Around them, piles of debris from Hurricane Helene still sit outside damaged homes.

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A man wades through a street in Havana, Cuba, that was flooded on Wednesday.

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A hospital worker walks by as an AquaFence flood wall is put into place around Tampa General Hospital on Tuesday.

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NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shared this photo from the International Space Station on Tuesday. "We flew over Hurricane Milton about 90 minutes ago," he said. "Here is the view out the Dragon Endeavour window."

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Aurelio Ortiz sits in his flooded home in Celestún, Mexico, on Tuesday.

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Debris from homes flooded by Hurricane Helene is piled up on curbs in Port Richey, Florida, on Tuesday.

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People prepare sandbags in Orlando on Tuesday.

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John Fedor waits for transportation to a shelter after his flight was canceled at the Tampa International Airport on Tuesday.

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David Jalving throws outdoor furniture into his father's pool in Fort Myers to prepare for Hurricane Milton.

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Heavy traffic flows northbound on Interstate 75 as people evacuate the Tampa Bay area late on Monday, October 7.

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A man clears debris left by Hurricane Helene from his home in Treasure Island, Florida, on Monday.

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A dock is damaged in St. Pete Beach, Florida, on Monday.

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Piles of debris from Hurricane Helene remain uncollected in Treasure Island on Monday.

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Domenic Gerald takes a break to watch the latest forecast while packing up his father's vacation home in Fort Myers Beach on Monday.

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A man in Progreso boards up an apartment building to protect it from Hurricane Milton on Monday.

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Contractors in New Port Richey help clean debris left by Hurricane Helene.

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Tropicana Field opened Monday as a staging site for workers and operations. Part of its roof was later torn off during the storm.

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Customers check mostly empty bread shelves at a shopping warehouse in Kissimmee, Florida, on Sunday, October 6.

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