Milton did not go quietly, though, flooding neighborhoods, destroying homes, ripping the roof off a major sports venue and toppling a massive crane into an office building. Two deaths were confirmed in St. Petersburg and Volusia County, and one each in Polk and Citrus counties, as well as five in St. Lucie County on Florida’s east coast following tornadoes there.

Power outages inched higher during the day as the storm exited off the eastern coast of the state, and nearly 3 million homes and businesses were in the dark, according to poweroutage.us.

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The center of Hurricane Milton could come ashore Wednesday in the Tampa Bayregion, which has not endured a direct hit by a major hurricane in more than a century. Scientists expect the system to weaken slightly before landfall, though it could retain hurricane strength as it churns across central Florida toward the Atlantic Ocean. That would largely spare other states ravaged by Helene, which killed at least 230 people on its path from Florida to the Carolinas.

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