{"id":112699,"date":"2024-10-10T23:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T16:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112699"},"modified":"2024-10-10T23:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T16:37:44","slug":"hurricane-milton-live-updates-florida-tallies-the-dead-and-storms-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112699","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Milton Live Updates: Florida Tallies the Dead and Storm&#8217;s Damage"},"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<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, Thomas Kerschen bid goodbye to Sienna, the gray, 33-foot sailboat he calls home. The vessel had survived several storms in the three years that Mr. Kerschen, 32, has lived on the waters off the coast of Gulfport, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kerschen had lost a houseboat before, in Key West during Hurricane Irma in 2017, when a huge wall of storm surge crushed it, and he did not think Sienna stood a chance against <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"#hurricane-milton-flood-storm-surge\" title=\"\">Milton<\/a>, especially after so many boats had been lost to storm surge two weeks ago during Hurricane Helene.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He bought 30-foot lines to give Sienna plenty of room to move in the storm surge, but his hopes were not high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI had never actually said goodbye to my boat before,\u201d he said. Then he evacuated to ride out the storm elsewhere.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Workers responded to a broken water main in Gulfport, Fla. <\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Zack Wittman for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">On Thursday morning, while it was still dark, Mr. Kerschen and a friend drove back to Gulfport. His friend, Richard Garber, needed to check on his bungalow. Mr. Kerschen needed to check on Sienna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He described making his way through trees littering the waterfront. Law enforcement officers tried to stop him, he said. He told them he just needed to see if his boat was still there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Eventually, he saw it. Sienna had made it, one of only about six boats still visible from the waterfront.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d he said, as he raked leaves and tree detritus from the street in front of Mr. Garber\u2019s bungalow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The bungalow had some damage to its foundation, said Mr. Garber, 54. He had moved to Gulfport \u2014 at the southern tip of Pinellas County, which juts into the bay west of Tampa \u2014 from Maryland in June. In a matter of months, he has become something of a Florida storm veteran.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Richard Garber moved to Florida from Maryland in June, and has already lived through two hurricanes.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Zack Wittman for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI love the people here,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of good friends here already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But the storms had been difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s been two and a half years of this, over and over and over again,\u201d Mr. Kerschen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He estimated that the number of boats anchored in the bay had gone from about 100 before Helene to about 20 before Milton. Now, perhaps, just the six he spotted from the waterfront would remain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Early Thursday morning, people began arriving at the waterfront, which had been bruised by Milton\u2019s strong eyewall winds. It was, however, one of the few places that appeared to have decent cellphone reception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Katherine Kelley walked her golden retriever, Louie, to survey the damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI haven\u2019t seen any broken glass,\u201d she said. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen any roof damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Water was calm after the storm.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Zack Wittman for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">During the storm, she stayed in her home on higher ground, outside a mandatory evacuation zone, with shutters, plywood and roof reinforcements. Ms. Kelley, who moved to Florida from Ohio two years ago, said that when her neighbors left before the storm, she worried whether she was right to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Seeing that neither the storm surge nor the winds had been as destructive as she had feared, Ms. Kelley was reassured. \u201cI guess we made the right decision,\u201d she said.<\/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.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/10\/10\/weather\/hurricane-milton-florida-live-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago, Thomas Kerschen bid goodbye to Sienna, the gray, 33-foot sailboat he calls home. 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