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Tony Brazzale, a diving boat captain who has lived for 10 years in his Wellington home in southeastern Florida, wasn’t worried about Hurricane Milton.
The storm’s center was forecast to make landfall on the opposite side of the peninsula and then cross the state well to the north of his family.
But on Wednesday afternoon as the hurricane began to pummel the state, he stood outside his house and watched as a tornado loomed in the sky.
He took video on his phone. The pressure dropped, and his wife said her ears were popping. It was time to go inside.
The twister shattered windows in the home, tore off roof shingles, ripped a tree from the ground and left branches and other debris scattered in the yard.
Two days later, Brazzale was wearing safety goggles and using a chainsaw as he cleaned up the damage.
“The hurricane was a non-event for us,” he said. “Had it not been for an F-3 tornado, the entire thing would have been a non-event for us.
