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In this aerial view, a boat is washed ashore from when Hurricane Milton passed through the area on Tuesday, in Punta Gorda, Fla. ... after Hurricane Milton made landfall, in downtown St ...
In this aerial view, a person walks through flood waters that inundated a neighborhood in Punta Gorda, Florida, after Hurricane Milton came ashore on Oct. 9, 2024. / Credit: / Getty Images.
PUNTA GORDA - OCTOBER 10: In this aerial view, a boat is washed ashore from when Hurricane Milton passed through the area on October 10, 2024, in Punta Gorda, Florida.
Ian killed 72 people in Lee County (the Fort Myers area) and nine in Charlotte County (the Punta Gorda area), and brought massive storm surge to Southwestern Florida, where over 1 million people lost electricity. Its outer bands caused damage near Miami, where tornadoes were reported.
In this aerial view, a person walks through flood waters that inundated a neighborhood after Hurricane Milton came ashore on Oct. 10, 2024, in Punta Gorda, Florida.
September 25, 1998 – Hurricane Georges passes over Key West as a Category 2 hurricane, and days later it moves eastward through the Florida Panhandle after hitting Biloxi, Mississippi. In the Florida Keys, the hurricane produced 8.41 inches (214 mm) of rain in Tavernier and wind gusts peaking at 110 mph (175 km/h) in Marathon.
Punta Gorda was the scene of massive destruction after Charley, a Category 4 hurricane, came through the city on August 13, 2004. Charley was the strongest tropical system to hit Florida since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and the first hurricane since Hurricane Donna in 1960 to make a direct hit on Florida's southwest coast. [ 8 ]
A boat washed ashore from Hurricane Milton in Punta Gorda, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Now, all Floridians can do is wait for the waters to recede and assess the damage.