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Where the Florida Keys was one of the areas hit hardest by Irma, the breathtaking images of the aftermath are almost too startling to believe. New aerial images show Florida Keys left in ruin ...
Satellite images show the extent of the damage from Hurricane Milton, which spawned tornadoes across Florida and struck the state as a Category 3 hurricane.. The fatal storm surge that forecasters ...
Cindy Herman reacts as she inspects the damage of her home caused by Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene two weeks before at Venice Bay Adult Park in Venice, Florida on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024.
Hurricane Irma was the costliest tropical cyclone in the history of the U.S. state of Florida, before being surpassed by Hurricane Ian in 2022. Irma also was the first major hurricane [nb 1] to strike the state since Wilma in 2005 and the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Charley in 2004.
Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys with winds of 130 mph (210 km/h) and a pressure of 931 mbar (931 hPa; 27.5 inHg), making it the strongest hurricane to strike Florida in terms of wind speed since Charley in 2004, and the most intense to strike the state in terms of barometric pressure since Andrew in 1992.
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In this aerial view, a person walks through flood waters that inundated a neighborhood in Punta Gorda, Florida, after Hurricane Milton came ashore on Oct. 9, 2024. / Credit: / Getty Images
In 2015, a movement was started to move the domes deeper to a location where they could safely become an underwater reef as part of Florida's history, but the movement did not get funded. [9] After Hurricane Irma hit the area in September 2017 as a Category 3 storm, two of the westernmost domes collapsed into the ocean, leaving four standing.