At least ten dead in Florida after Hurricane Milton

At least ten people died after Hurricane Milton hit Florida. “In our opinion, these deaths were caused by the tornadoes” which struck this state in the southeast of the United States, announced Thursday, October 10, the American Minister of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.

“The storm was considerable, but fortunately the worst-case scenario did not occur,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Thursday morning. The hurricane “weakened before making landfall, and the marine submersion, from what we know for the moment, was not as significant as that observed for Hurricane Helene”, which struck several states in the southeastern United States at the end of September. More than 3.1 million homes were without power across Florida on Thursday, according to the governor.

Milton reached the west coast of Florida Wednesday evening – he went from the strongest category to the weakest in a few hours – and maintained powerful winds as it made its way inland, before reaching the Atlantic on Thursday morning. Joe Biden, however, called on the population to “stay inside” for the moment, in particular to avoid “downed power lines, debris, and washed out roads.”

Although it has left the peninsula, the hurricane continues to produce powerful winds and “heavy rains” over central and eastern Florida, according to the US Hurricane Center (NHC).