2024-10-11
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From the New York Times, it's the headlines.
I'm Traci Mumford.
Today's Friday, October 11.
Here's what we're covering.
We have at the state level, we're continuing supporting search and rescue operations.
Florida National Guard, Florida law enforcement, and.
Urban search and rescue authorities in Florida are working their way through flooded streets and across wind battered islands to assess the damage from Hurricane Milton, which cut a path of destruction across the state from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean.
At least twelve deaths have been linked to the storm, 2.5 million people are currently without power, and many areas took their second hit in just two weeks before they could even clean up the debris from Hurricane Helene.
Still, Governor Ron DeSantis said the damage appears to be less than what the state had braced for.
I think in some areas, in terms of what was being predicted, some of the worst case scenarios did not come to pass.
Certainly in terms of some of the storm surge people were predicting, some of.
That is luck based on where the storm came ashore.
But Florida is also more prepared than ever to face what are becoming more frequent and more powerful storms.
Before Milton hit, Florida organized the largest evacuation effort in the state's history.
That, combined with updated building codes that make newer construction more storm resistant, seems to have helped stave off the worst.
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