VERO BEACH, Fla. — The same tornado that devastated the Spanish Lakes neighborhood in For Pierce, killing six people, crossed into Indian River County — ripping up roofs and trees in Vero Beach, according to the National Weather Service.

Although there were no deaths in Vero Beach from Hurricane Milton — which spawned a series of violent ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis is again using state forces to help with county and city debris removal after Hurricane Milton came tearing through Florida, he announced Sunday.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved a 100% reimbursement rate for debris collection in Florida’s impacted areas for a 90-day window. Ordinarily, the federal ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — We were still mucking the floors and ripping out drywall when we saw the first forecast.

The National Hurricane Center released the graphic, an ugly white blob over the Gulf of Mexico, at 11 a.m. last Saturday. It reached us via texts from our cousins and alerts from the local news or guys showing us their phone screen in line ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — By Friday evening, Jan Elizabeth Campbell was tired.

Tired of walking up and down 11 flights in a pitch-black stairwell to get out of her downtown St. Petersburg senior living complex, 540 Town Center.

Tired of living without air conditioning, without water, without hot food.

Tired of hauling all her devices to a nearby Wendy�...Read more

Oranges and some citrus trees are lying useless on the ground in Florida’s groves after Hurricane Milton tore through the state, setting back growers just as they hoped the worst for the struggling industry was over.

The powerful storm moved through key citrus-producing counties after making landfall in Florida Wednesday night, killing at ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Mike Garcia’s boots sank into the earth as he walked the drowned fields of Orlando’s Everoak Farm in the wake of Hurricane Milton’s violent visit. The urban oasis off Carrington Road just outside the Baldwin Park neighborhood has been serving the city for five-and-a-half years. He’s been market farming for longer than ...Read more

Hurricane Milton may have dissipated over the Atlantic Ocean, but the floodwaters it left across Florida still pose a major risk to human health and safety.

Even though the risk of drowning or getting injured in rising, fast-moving water is past, standing water remains treacherous to navigate and likely harbors dangerous diseases. Walking in it...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tens of thousands of Central Floridians were still waiting to have their power restored Saturday — two days after Hurricane Milton ripped through the region

Local utilities promised most customers would get their lights turned back on this weekend.

PowerOutage.us was reporting at 1:30 p.m. that 77,355 customers of various ...Read more

MIAMI — Holmes Beach, a popular Gulf vacation spot off Bradenton, reopened to residents and business owners Saturday at 8 a.m.

Holmes Beach Police Department said in a post on social media that you must have a reentry tag issued by the city or proof of residency showing you live in Holmes Beach to enter. Police said they are not allowing ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A stunningly precise forecast of Hurricane Milton’s track gave Floridians a strong head start to prepare this past week. It marked the latest instance that a major hurricane has been mapped in precise detail — its path was accurately predicted a whole four days before it made landfall.

Milton’s first cone ...Read more

MIAMI — As Hurricane Milton barreled towards Florida’s Gulf Coast, Primitivo Cesario planned to ride it out with his family in their trailer home in Ruskin, on the eastern shore of Tampa Bay. But he heeded dire warnings from public officials and evacuated to a shelter several miles away, along with everyone else at Fairmont Mobile Estates, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tens of thousands of Central Floridians were still waiting to have their power restored on Friday, a day after Hurricane Milton ripped through the region, but local utilities promised most customers would get their lights turned back on this weekend.

One of the area’s largest providers, the Orlando Utilities Commission, said...Read more

SARASOTA, Fla. — Less than 48 hours after Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, many residents were returning to the barrier islands off Sarasota for the first time since evacuating earlier in the week.

Late Friday morning, cars flowed freely over the John Ringling Causeway leading from Sarasota onto St. Armands Key, a few hours ...Read more

MIAMI — Humans were not the only primates affected by Hurricane Milton. The Center for Great Apes in Wauchula suffered significant damage even though its residents are safe.

The Center for Great Apes is home to Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s former chimpanzee. It also hosts five orangutans who used to live on Jungle Island. In 2021, the Watson ...Read more

ORLANDO — As Hurricane Milton pelted Winter Park with gusty winds and rains, televisions and lights stayed on and food and air stayed cold across the city.

A mere 275 customers of the city-owned electric utility went dark — less than 2% of its 15,000 customers. That’s a sharp contrast to the hundreds of thousands who lost power across ...Read more

The closest route was through a town under a flash flood warning. Heavy rain was falling, electricity for traffic lights was spotty and wind gusts carried potentially dangerous debris.

Nonetheless, a pregnant Florida woman was in labor as Hurricane Milton was crossing Polk County, Thursday, Oct. 10, and she desperately needed to get to a ...Read more