Hurricane Milton is moving away from Florida, leaving a trail of destruction and debris in its wake, and now comes the damage assessment. Fortunately, it was “not the worst-case scenario,” according to Gov. Ron DeSantis, though photos and video captured early Thursday as the sun came up show widespread damage to many parts of the…
Hurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida as a Category 3 storm, pounding cities with ferocious winds and rain, whipping up a barrage of tornadoes and causing an unknown numbers of deaths. It compounded the misery wrought by Helene while sparing Tampa a direct hit. The storm tracked to…
Hurricane Milton strengthened to a Category 5 storm on Monday just an hour before lunch time local time, as Florida ramps up efforts for potentially its biggest evacuation in seven years – just days after the significant impact of the hurricane Helene. Hurricane Milton reached maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (250 kph) about 715 miles…
Many Canadians flock to Florida as cold weather nears but as Hurricane Milton barrels towards the state as a Category 5 storm — though is expected to make landfall as a Category 4 — it may have some north of the border worried about property they own down south. The latest survey by the National…
Hurricane Milton quickly intensified Sunday and is on track to become a major hurricane with the Tampa Bay area in its sights, putting Florida on edge and triggering evacuation orders along a coast still reeling from Helene’s devastation. While forecast models vary, the most likely path suggests Milton could make landfall Wednesday in the Tampa…
Several communities have been levelled, more than 160 people are dead and hundreds more missing after hurricane Helene swept through various parts of the U.S. southeast. And experts say there were several factors that made the “monster” storm so destructive, so fast. The destructive potential of the storm had climatologists and meteorologists bracing before it…
Hurricane Helene unleashed a “catastrophic storm surge and life-threatening winds” as it battered Florida‘s Big Bend region before making its way to Georgia. More than four million people across five southeastern U.S. states were without power Friday morning, according to tracking website poweroutage.us. Helene made landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm Thursday night, before…
Authorities rushed to airlift supplies and restore communications and roads in flooded Asheville, North Carolina, on Sunday as residents along the storm-battered Florida coast gathered for church services amid the wreckage of Hurricane Helene. Massive rains from the powerful Helene left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue around the U.S. Southeast. Cleanup continued Sunday from a…
Thousands of people in the vicinity of a dam in Tennessee were evacuated Friday amid fears of a “catastrophic failure” from the adverse impacts of Hurricane Helene, but officials later clarified the structure hadn’t failed. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) issued an emergency alert from Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis about the Waterville Dam…
Tropical storm force winds began battering Florida on Thursday as Hurricane Helene prepared to make landfall, with forecasters warning that the enormous storm could create a “nightmare” surge along the coast and churn up damaging winds hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern U.S. Helene strengthened to a major Category 4 storm ahead of its evening…
