A drone video released by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Florida (USA) shows rescue teams loading people from flooded homes into boats this Thursday (10).
Sheriff Chad Chronister, who assessed damage to a boat with the CNN this Thursday, said he has never seen flooding on the scale caused by Hurricane Milton in the region.
The video also shows some residents walking, in waist-deep water, to a boat, while others get into a smaller vessel next to a house.
Watch the rescue:
Milton is no longer a hurricane, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center.
Despite still having hurricane-force sustained winds of 121 km/h, Milton lost its tropical characteristics and merged with a cold front extending across the western Atlantic and is now considered a post-tropical cyclone.
Hurricane Milton leaves deaths and destruction
Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, as a dangerous Category 3 storm, generating strong winds and rain, as well as flooding and tornadoes.
It weakened to Category 1 as it crossed the state and moved offshore, according to the US National Hurricane Center.
Still, the storm left a trail of destruction, roofing houses, knocking down trees, poles and a crane.
Thirteen people died after the hurricane hit, according to authorities.
Milton is the third hurricane to hit Florida this year, leaving more than 3 million people without power in the state. Wind gusts of 100 mph were recorded near Tampa.
This content was originally published in Hurricane Milton: Drone video shows rescue in flooded city in Florida on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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