Hurricane Milton has left at least 16 people dead in Florida, with five people being killed in the tornadoes that hit St. Lucie County. More than 2 million people are still without power.
Milton made landfall near Siesta Key as a Category 3 on Wednesday night, dumping torrential rain throughout the Tampa Bay area and qualifying it as a 1-in-1000-year event as it headed west across the state. St. Petersburg got 18.31 inches of rain (over 1.5 feet in 24 hours), Clearwater Beach got 14.01 inches, and Baskin saw 13.09 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
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