Hurricane Milton hit as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday.
The internet is littered with photos and videos of the chaos, flooding and destruction Hurricane Milton brought on Florida.
The Category 3 storm hit the coast on Wednesday, before it was downgraded to a Category 2 storm, wreaking havoc with winds of more than 100 miles per hour and a dangerous storm surge to densely populated areas along Florida’s Gulf Coast, including Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, and Fort Myers.
Milton ended up making landfall in Siesta Key near Sarasota, about 70 miles south of Tampa, where it was initially forecast to come ashore.
But the Tampa region was still badly affected, with St. Petersburg recording more than 16 inches of rain, according to The Associated Press.
Clips posted by Conlustro Research on X, formerly Twitter, show heavy rain pounding the city, with the power of the wind visible in how trees and street lamps are being blown back and forth.
Another photo, shared by engineer Matt Dursh, shows a crane collapsed into what he, and others on social media, identified as the Tampa Bay Times building.
