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Hurricane Milton Knocks Out Power To Over 3M, Spawning Dozens Of Tornadoes: Here's Latest Hurricane Milton Knocks Out Power To Over 3M, Spawning Dozens Of Tornadoes: Here's Latest
Hurricane Milton Knocks Out Power To Over 3M, Spawning Dozens Of Tornadoes: Here's Latest The second major hurricane to hit the US in as many weeks has just pushed off Florida's east coast, leaving a path of destruction, with about three million homes and businesses without power, causing life-threatening storm surge, and flash flooding. Milton landed as a Category 3 storm with 120 mile-per-hour winds at around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, on the west-central coast of Florida in Siesta Key near Sarasota, the National Hurricane Center said. Numerous tornadoes were reported before landfall, including in areas well south of the eye of the storm.  Scattered tornadoes continued…
12 Years After Sandy, Residents Returning To Rebuilt Mantoloking Oceanfront Community 12 Years After Sandy, Residents Returning To Rebuilt Mantoloking Oceanfront Community
12 Years After Sandy, Residents Returning To Rebuilt Mantoloking Oceanfront Community Dale Parisi's third-generation cottage near the Mantoloking beachfront was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. "It was a very sad day," he said. "We had no idea what the future held for any of us. While some people cashed in their chips, I believed that someday we were going to return and rebuild." Nearly a dozen years later, Parisi moved into his new three-bedroom duplex in the Osborn Dunes at South Mantoloking community. The neighborhood off Route 35 has reopened for some new and returning residents after suffering catastrophic damage from Sandy, developer Walte…