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When Hurricane Helene battered Florida’s Gulf Coast this week, one of the hardest-hit areas was the small town of Steinhatchee, which was overwhelmed by a 10-foot storm surge and 140 mph winds ...
Here’s what the aftermath looked like in parts of the hardest-hit areas of southwest Florida: Photos show how Hurricane Milton ravaged parts of Florida, including Bradenton, Tampa and Siesta Key
Here’s what the aftermath looked like in parts of the hardest-hit areas of Florida’s Gulf Coast: ... Floridians in preparation for possible flooding due to Hurricane Milton in Broward and ...
[214] [215] Due to the large size of the storm, damaging winds and flooding impacted much of Florida's gulf coast. In areas closer to the Big Bend such as Steinhatchee, storm surge reached up to 9.63 feet (2.94 m), while areas as far south as Key West experienced storm surge of 1 to 3 feet (0.30 to 0.91 m).
The hardest-hit areas were in Lee County, where catastrophic damage occurred as Ian pushed a destructive 10–15 ft (3.0–4.6 m) storm surge into Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, and Bonita Springs, just south of where its eye made landfall. [72]
AccuWeather meteorologists expect a broad area where 8-12 inches of rain will pour down over the central and northern parts of the Florida Peninsula, but within this zone, a narrow corridor of 12 ...
In the Tampa Bay area, at least 17 people died due to Helene. 12 people were killed due to storm surge in Pinellas County and another 5 died directly and indirectly in Hillsborough County. [43] By the morning of September 26, 2024, thousands in the Tampa Bay area were experiencing power outages. [44]
The island community of roughly 1,300 residents suffered some of the worst storm-surge damage in Sarasota County and Southwest Florida after Milton made landfall about 20 miles north on Siesta Key ...