Residents in Fort Myers, Florida, skilled storm injury from a suspected twister as Hurricane Milton is anticipated to make landfall on the west coast of Florida Wednesday evening. FOX Climate Correspondent Brandy Campbell studies. Oct. 9, 2024.
As if historic storm surge and hurricane-force winds weren’t sufficient, residents of Fort Myers needed to cope with much more loopy climate from Milton as a twister plowed by a neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon.
A number of witnesses noticed the twister transferring by Fort Myers throughout Hurricane Milton’s preliminary bands.
FOX Climate’s Brandy Campbell stated she got here throughout injury from the seemingly twister that moved by Fort Myers, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon.
FOX Climate’s Brandy Campbell stated she discovered some potential twister injury on Daniels Parkway.
“The entrance door blew inside the home. So all of that breeze and that water was coming inside,” stated a storm sufferer.
His road and plenty of others had been lined with massive, snapped bushes and particles that wasn’t there earlier than the twister.
Outer bands of Hurricane Milton are already impacting Florida forward of landfall, bringing heavy rainfall, sturdy winds and tornadoes.
The tornado seen in Fort Myers was simply one of many many seen throughout Wednesday’s twister outbreak spawned by Hurricane Milton.
A minimum of a dozen tornadoes had been reported in Central and South Florida forward of the hurricane’s landfall.
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Connor Ferran’s home is seen after it was hit by a twister in Fort Myers, Florida on October 9, 2024, as Hurricane Milton approaches. Milton regained energy on October 8 to develop into a Class 5 storm with most sustained winds of 165 mph (270 kph) because it barrels in direction of the west-central coast of Florida and is forecast to make landfall late October 9, in response to the Nationwide Hurricane Heart. (Photograph by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photograph by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
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Alexa Haight hugs her grandfather Robin Haight earlier than he’s taken to the hospital by medics after getting injured by a reported twister that hit his home in Fort Myers, Florida, on October 9, 2024, as Hurricane Milton approaches. Florida residents fled or simply hunkered down within the last hours October 9 earlier than Milton pummels the state, as authorities emergency aid efforts had been dragged to the middle of the US election.
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FORT MYERS, FLORIDA – OCTOBER 09: Robert Haight salvages what he can from his dwelling after what gave the impression to be a twister tore the roof off earlier than Hurricane Milton’s arrival on October 09, 2024, in Fort Myers, Florida. He stated he had simply had the roof changed two years after Hurricane Ian had broken it. Persons are getting ready for the storm, which may very well be a Cat 3 when it makes landfall on Wednesday night.
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