Hurricane Milton kills at least 11, many far from landfall
SIESTA KEY, Fla. — Hurricane Milton cut an uneven path of destruction as it tore across Florida from the Gulf of Mexico late Wednesday and entered the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, largely sparing the densely populated cities around Tampa Bay but spawning deadly tornadoes far from its center.
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Hurricane Milton spawned dozens of tornadoes. One of them deadly
As Hurricane Milton spun out over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, St. Lucie County reported five people dead in its wake. But those fatalities were eerily on the opposite coast from Siesta Key, where Milton made landfall Wednesday as a powerful Category 3 hurricane.
