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The images are frightening. This Wednesday evening, Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida. A Category 3 hurricane, this could be “the worst in a century,” says US President Joe Biden.
An hour after hitting the west coast of Florida, Milton was reclassified as a category two storm, reports the media outlet L’Indépendant .
Incredibly powerful winds and rains of rare intensity, the videos published en masse by Internet users and local media are edifying. Currently, the cities of Tampa, Fort Myers and Saint Petersburg are the most impacted. The inhabitants of Saint Petersburg are also terrified in the face of rains “that we see once every 1,000 years”, indicates CNN . The equivalent of three months of rain fell in just three hours.
Due to significant flooding, authorities have issued an alert and called on the population to seek refuge in higher ground, the New York Times reported .
