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Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida at about 8:30 p.m. ET Wednesday night, according to the National Hurricane Center, arriving after officials repeatedly sounded the alarm on ...
Hurricane Milton lashed Florida's Gulf Coast with flooding rain and winds of 120 miles per hour that left homes — and, in some cases, full neighborhoods — drenched, muddied and dilapidated. At ...
Milton's center is predicted to make landfall somewhere along the coast between Tarpon Springs and Cape Coral, according to the hurricane center's official forecast.
In 1927, Tarpon Springs had Tarpon Springs Memorial Hospital built on land owned by the city for $25,000 in bonds. It had 12 beds and was two stories tall. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the 1930s, the hospital made up 10 percent of the city budget .
The National Hurricane Center had warned that Milton was likely to strengthen into a major hurricane, defined by minimum sustained winds of 111 mph, and its status was confirmed at 8 a.m. Monday.
October 9 – Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 120 mph (195 km/h), becoming the second major hurricane to strike Florida in under a two-week period. [221] The storm brought significant flooding and damaging winds to much of the state.
October 25, 1921 – The 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane strikes Tarpon Springs, producing moderate winds, a storm tide reaching 10.5 feet (3.2 m), and heavy rainfall peaking at 11.73 inches (298 mm) at St. Leo. About five people are killed as a result of the storm, and damage is estimated at $5 million (1921 USD, $60 million 2008 USD). [24]
Hurricane Milton dropped more than 15 inches of rain from Tampa to Daytona Beach on Oct. 9-10, but the Withlacoochee River gauge at nearby Trilby, Florida, didn't reach its maximum height of 19.68 ...