For the past two years, I have written about hurricane recovery; the first time shortly after Ian devastated our area in September 2022, and then last year as a reflection on the lingering effects in our gardens after Ian’s rampage. This year we have endured the effects of three hurricanes: ...
Harry Chapin Food Bank, Southwest Florida’s leading hunger relief organization and only Feeding America partner in the region, will hold emergency food distributions on Friday, Oct. 11 and Saturday, Oct. 12 to support Hurricane Milton recovery efforts. The distribution centers will be open ...
AccuWeather preliminarily estimates the total damage and economic loss from historic Hurricane Milton will be between $160 billion and $180 billion. "After making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane, a major hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, Milton will go down as one of ...
Lee County officials urged residents and visitors to stay off the roads if possible today and to stay off the beaches for the next couple days in the wake of Hurricane Milton. Milton, which made landfall at Siesta Key as a Category 3 storm Wednesday, brought extensive flooding to Lee County, ...
Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, according to this morning's flash report from the city of Cape Coral Emergency Operations Center, citing National Hurricane Center information. "This continues to be a historic storm from the Tampa Bay regions southward ...
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for all of Lee County through 9 p.m. as well as Charlotte County, Collier County and 20 other counties down to Miami-Dade County. The latest National Weather Service update has Hurricane Milton landing at 2 a.m. Thursday morning as a ...
The Captiva Community Panel released a Hurricane Milton update provided by Captiva Island Fire Chief Jeff Pawul early this morning. Currently a Category 5 hurricane, Milton continues to track south. "Hurricane Milton projected landfall continues to move south with the cone of probable path ...
As Milton approaches Florida, LCEC is urging members to prepare for widespread extended power outages. LCEC is actively monitoring the situation and is fully mobilized to respond once it is safe to do so. Due to the severity of the hurricane, restoration efforts may take time, and members are ...
Lee County officials urged those in evacuation zones to get going Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Milton as the evacuation order which takes effect at 10 p.m. tonight for those in the low-lying areas of zones A and B. During a press conference Tuesday afternoon, officials said Milton was still on ...
The city of Cape Coral continues to monitor Hurricane Milton, now a category 4 hurricane with winds up to 155 mph. The cone has tightened for landfall in the Tampa Bay Area south to Sarasota with the alert that "Major Hurricane Milton will bring historic impacts to the west coast of ...
