{"id":112506,"date":"2024-10-10T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T04:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112506"},"modified":"2024-10-10T11:33:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T04:33:45","slug":"video-tampa-slammed-by-hurricane-milton-as-destructive-wind-pummels-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112506","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Tampa slammed by Hurricane Milton as destructive wind pummels city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/tropicana_damage_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">Ferocious winds from Hurricane Milton caused significant damage to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, where video showed massive tears in the stadium&#8217;s roof. The facility is home to the Tampa Bay Rays. (Courtesy: @Zachab29 \/ X)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><strong>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/milton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Milton<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/hurricane-milton-landfall-florida-storm-surge-power-outages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slammed the Tampa-St. Petersburg area<\/a> with over 100 mph wind gusts and torrential rain Wednesday, knocking out power to well over a million in the metro area and damaging the home of the city&#8217;s baseball team.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">St. Petersburg&#8217;s airport reported more than three hours of gusts over 70 mph, including seven gusts over 90 mph and a peak gust of 101 mph just after 10:30 p.m. ET. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The ferocious winds caused significant damage to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, where video showed massive tears in the stadium&#8217;s fabric roof. The facility is home to the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Tropicana Field was being used as a temporary staging location for hundreds of first responders. According to local authorities, there were no reports of any injuries associated with the damage to the stadium.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Also in St. Petersburg, a construction crane collapsed at the 400 Central building, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/st-petersburg-construction-crane-falls-from-high-rise-during-hurricane-milton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to FOX 13 Tampa<\/a>. There are no reports of any injuries there either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/florida\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tampa<\/a> International Airport recorded a peak gust of 83 mph so far. \u00a0Power outages reached over 1.25 million customers just in Hillsborough and Pinellas County alone, according to PowerOutage.us.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">FOX Weather Meteorologist Steve Bender reports from Tampa where gusts over 80 mph have left over 1 million in the metro area without power and a Flash Flood Emergency amid several inches of rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Milton roared onshore just south of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/florida\/st-petersburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Petersburg<\/a> area in Siesta Key on Wednesday evening as a major<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/learn\/tropical-cyclone-category-three-strength-damage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Category 3<\/a> storm. But while the southern landfall spared the area from a feared record storm surge in Tampa Bay, flooding became an issue anyway as Milton dumped several inches of rain in minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/learn\/explaining-flood-alerts-issued-by-national-weather-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flash Flood Emergency<\/a> covered 2 million people in the metro area. Over 5 inches of rain fell in one hour in St. Petersburg\u2019s Albert Whitted Airport, over 10 inches in 3.5 hours, and 18 inches in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">&#8220;This is a particularly dangerous situation,&#8221; the National Weather Service warned. &#8220;Seek higher ground now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><i>Updates to follow.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/hurricane-milton-tampa-st-pete-wind-flood\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferocious winds from Hurricane Milton caused significant damage to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, where video showed massive tears in the stadium&#8217;s roof. 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