‘The Most Horrible Night of My Life:’ Hurricane Milton Leaves Chaos Behind

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As the sky began to clear around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, Madeline Colón and her husband, Flor Colón, decided to check on their home on Shadow Brook Lane in the Palmetto community, west of Florida. “It was the most horrible night of my life,” as she described the onslaught of Hurricane Milton. Fallen trees, flooded streets, and destroyed houses were the scene on their way home. These were the consequences of Milton’s winds, reaching 120 mph and whose eye entered Florida Wednesday night in the Sarasota area. The death toll associated with the hurricane already exceeds a dozen.