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Hurricane Milton: Satellite Photos Show Florida Before and After

Satellite images captured some of the widespread damage caused by Hurricane Milton as it tore through Florida following its landfall on October 9.
The storm caused widespread damage to infrastructure, upended trees and devastated large areas across the state.
Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, about 70 miles south of Tampa, on Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday evening. The storm unleashed numerous tornadoes, wind speeds exceeding 100 mph, and more than 16 inches of rain in some areas.
At least 16 deaths have been confirmed as a result of the storm, which brought devastating winds, torrential rainfall and widespread flooding.
Imagery provided by Maxar shows before and after Hurricane Milton barreled through Florida. Satellite images after the storm show an overhead view of the roof blown off Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. In the before photos, the roof is fully intact. In the images taken after, significant damage to the infrastructure can be seen.
Imagery of street views shows parts of the region flooded following Milton’s landfall.
“Maxar collected new high-resolution satellite imagery yesterday [October 10] that reveals some of the storm damage caused by Hurricane Milton along the Gulf Coast of Florida with a focus on Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and the nearby barrier islands,” Justin Cameron, senior imagery analyst at Maxar, told Newsweek.
“Roads along several of the barrier islands have sand and stormwater covering many of the residential streets, particularly along Anna Maria Island, Bradenton Beach and Clearwater.
“We note that some of the islands and residential areas suffered earlier storm damage from Hurricane Helene that struck the area in late September, and debris can be seen piled along the roads and in front of houses.
“Elsewhere in the area, in St. Petersburg, the roof of the Tropicana Field stadium [the Major League Baseball stadium of the Tampa Bay Rays] was largely shredded, and heavily damaged St. Petersburg and the Albert Whitted Airport suffered extensive damage.”
Nearly 2.5 million customers in Florida are still without power a day after Hurricane Milton hammered the Sunshine State, according to PowerOutage.us.
Several Florida airports that shut down in anticipation of Hurricane Milton have reopened or are preparing to resume operations. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that there had been “over 3,600 [flight] cancellations over the past few days” in Florida due to Milton.
The FAA official added that “multiple airports” remain closed in the hurricane’s aftermath, adding that Orlando International Airport (MCO) and Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) planned to reopen within hours of Milton leaving the state on Thursday.
Milton comes after Hurricane Helene battered Florida, resulting in more than 200 fatalities throughout the Southeast.
It was the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region, according to the Weather Channel.
Satellite imagery shows the damage following the severe weather conditions as a result of Hurricane Helene.
In the before photos, the roads and buildings are intact, trees are still standing, and the vegetation around appears green. However, in the images taken on Wednesday, damage to the infrastructure can be seen; a lot of the surrounding greenery turned brown from flooding, while trees have been toppled.
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