Submerged streets leave residents to slog through floodwaters after hurricane
October 11
Florida residents slogged through flooded streets, gathered up scattered debris and assessed damage to their homes after Hurricane Milton smashed through coastal communities and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes.
Here, Connor Hughes of Lithia, Florida, moves in deep floodwaters along the Alafia river.
A home on Little Wekiva Road in the Spring Oaks neighbourhood in Altamonte Springs is reflected in the floodwaters from the Little Wekiva River.
As residents rushed back to their homes to assess the damages, tourists who had come for a vacation found that Florida theme parks including Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld had reopened Friday.
One person was left to pick their way through the damaged walkways in the beachfront condominium community of Bahia Vista Gulf after the hurricane hit the island of Venice, Florida hard.
The damaged roof of Ron and Jean Dyer's beachfront condo at Bahia Vista Gulf is seen alongside the sand-swamped Jetty Villas.
In Riverview, named because of its proximity to the Alafia River, a small bridge over a creek washed out, blocking Canadian Del Ockey from the home where he spends the six coldest months of the year.
Two planks over the now trickling creek are the only way he can get to his house. He rented a car and parked it on the other side, making a run Friday morning to get gas and fix a chain saw that broke as he was cutting down fallen trees around his home.
Ockey said he's used to hurricanes, having built his house 26 years ago, but Milton was different.
"We've had seven or eight of them come before, but nothing like this one. This was big-time," Ockey said.
A member of the Pasco County Sheriff's Office goes out to help residents trapped in their homes as waters rise.
In the New Port Richey region, Hurricane Milton caused the Anclote River to flood.
Machinery was out at Clearwater Beach, Florida as the clean up continues.
It's a big job ahead with a lifeguard hut on its side after Hurricane Milton.
In Bradenton Beach on Anna Maria Island, a house sits toppled off its stilts after Hurricane Milton - it's alongside an empty lot where a home was swept away by Hurricane Helene just weeks earlier.
Hurricane Milton has smashed through communities in Florida, tearing homes into pieces, filling streets with mud and spawning a barrage of deadly tornadoes.
Natasha Ducre surveys the kitchen of her devastated home, which lost most of its roof during the passage of Hurricane Milton.
Ducre, her husband, three children and two grandchildren rode out the storm in a government shelter and returned to find their home unliveable and much of their furniture and belongings destroyed by rainwater.
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