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SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — Residents in Sarasota woke up to widespread destruction Thursday morning after a powerful storm surge swept through the area, tossing cars and boats like rag dolls and ...

Track the storm with the live map below. Arriving just two weeks ... The worst storm surge appeared to be in Sarasota County, where it was 8 to 10 feet (2.5 to 3 meters) — lower than in the ...

8:30 p.m. EDT, Oct. 9 — Milton made landfall near Siesta Key in Sarasota County ... conference Thursday. “The storm did weaken before landfall and the storm surge, as initially reported ...

The Oct. 10, 11 p.m. surge map for Hurricane Milton ... the storm will push life-threatening storm surge into Sarasota and cities to the south. Farther south in Ft. Myers and Naples, surge ...

Dr. Ryan Truchelut, of WeatherTiger, is tracking major Hurricane Milton and is offering running analysis on the catastrophic landfall in Florida.

The storm made landfall near Sarasota on the Gulf Coast as forecasters warned of dangerous storm surge and flash floods. Deaths were reported from a tornado in Fort Pierce, and wind destroyed the ...

The hurricane made landfall as the National Hurricane Center was warning that the storm would bring "life-threatening storm surge," extreme ... near Siesta Key in Sarasota County, Florida, as ...

Weather experts predicted up to 15 feet of storm surge along the Sarasota area’s coastlines ... according to the Florida Power and Light’s outage map. Local officials encouraged residents ...

Hurricane Milton made a damaging category 3 landfall in Siesta Key, Sarasota County last night, which is south of Tampa Bay and so the worst case loss scenarios involving significant storm surge ...