Hurricane Milton’s destructive power – in pictures

6 days ago
  • Residents look over a crane that collapsed into a building in downtown St Petersburg, Florida, on Thursday.

    people look out at a collapsed crane and damaged building
  • The torn roof of Tropicana Field in St Petersburg on Thursday.

    a shredded baseball stadium roof
  • Mallory Tollett comforts her dog Maggie after a suspected tornado went through her family’s property in Port Salerno, Florida, on Wednesday.

    a young girl holds a dog
  • Residents are rescued from their second-story apartment complex in Clearwater, Florida, on Thursday.

    people walk down stairs to a raft to be rescued
  • A woman checks on a baby inside a flooded house as Hurricane Milton passes close to the Cuban coast in Batabano on Wednesday.

    a woman checks on a baby in a flooded home
  • A high rise construction crane broke apart and crashed into a building in St Petersburg on Thursday.

    a collapsed crane leans on a damaged building
  • A woman consoles her daughter as medics takes her grandfather into care after he got injured by a reported tornado that hit his house in Fort Myers, Florida, on Wednesday.

    a mother comforts her crying daughter
  • Flooding in Punta Gorda, Florida, on Thursday.

    cars drive down a flood street
  • A tornado-damaged home in North Fort Myers, Florida, on Thursday.

    a person stands in the middle of a kitchen with a missing roof
  • People leave a rescue boat after floodwaters entered their apartment in Clearwater, Florida, on Thursday.

    a man carries a child
  • Lee county sheriff deputies ride in an amphibious vehicle to look for residents stranded in flooded communities in Iona, Florida, on Thursday.

    law enforcement drive along a flooded road
  • Houses lie in ruins after sustaining tornado and flood damage in Matlacha, Florida, on Thursday.

    a collapsed house
  • A man gets a few drinks from his destroyed home after it was hit by a tornado and flooding in Matlacha, Florida, on Thursday.

    A man gets a few drinks from his destroyed home
  • A water rescue team member walks through floodwaters at an apartment complex in Clearwater, Florida, on Thursday.

    a man holds a walkie-talkie as he walks through chest-high water
  • A man clears mud from a restaurant after it was inundated with floodwaters in Punta Gorda, Florida, on Thursday.

    a man sweeps mud
  • A storm-damaged home in Venice, Florida, on Thursday.

    a storm-damaged home
  • Residents talk to a motorist on a street littered with storm debris in Venice, Florida, on Thursday.

    people talk to a driver on a street littered with debris
  • Toppled palm trees on Anna Maria Island, Florida, on Thursday.

    toppled palm trees
  • A woman reacts to her damaged home in Wellington, Florida, on Wednesday.

    a woman holds her hands to her face
  • A woman walks near a damaged beachside property in Venice, Florida, on Thursday.

    A woman walks near damaged beachside property
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