Tornado cuts path of destruction through Florida neighborhood, shredding roofs and toppling cars
The wrath Hurricane Milton was felt in a Florida neighborhood after a violent tornado destroyed homes and cars.
Video footage showed a path of destruction cut through the Avenir neighborhood of Palm Beach Gardens before Milton made landfall.
In the video, Pposted on X by Gelo PerezRoofs of several houses were damaged and panels were missing that had been ripped off by the strong winds.
Debris littered the lawns and sidewalks as residents gathered among the damage, including an overturned truck that sat silently in the background.
A tornado landed a car on the lawn of a house in Avenir
Residents discuss the damage in the middle of the street
Perez described the scene as “disastrous.”
In a National Hurricane Center’s X update, the storm is packing winds of 60 miles per hour.
‘Milton almost ashore along the coast of west-central Florida. Life-threatening storm surges, damaging winds and flooding rains occurring across portions of Central and Southwest Florida,” the NHC wrote in their most recent X-post.
The storm is bringing rain and high winds to the Tampa Bay on its steady and potentially catastrophic march toward Florida’s west coast, where officials sounded urgent warnings for residents to evacuate or face grim odds of survival.
Tornadoes touched down in the Everglades and Fort Myers. Forecasters warn more could appear in central and southern Florida.
Forecasters expect Milton to make landfall around 11:00 PM EST as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph.
Lawns were left covered in debris and nearby cars were heavily damaged
The greatest danger is the wall of water, known as a storm surge, that Milton will throw up. The storm surge was initially feared to be fifteen feet tall, but forecasters now believe the storm surge will still be a record high of 40 feet.
“Where you are now is where you will be for the duration of Milton,” said Matt Myers, head of Manatee County’s emergency management agency. “Conditions are rapidly deteriorating.”
Avenir’s unnerving footage comes after a video emerged of an idiotic couple taking selfies in the hurricane.
Thousands of people have tuned in to watch Milton – described by forecasters as the ‘storm of the century’ – as it flows in.
Despite nearly six million Florida residents being under evacuation orders, some also decided to visit the Universal Studios resort in Orlando to make the most of the hours before Milton makes landfall.
Images of residents enjoying themselves while ignoring evacuation warnings drew scorn on social media, with one person sharing a selfie at the Key West monument and asking: “What are you doing man?”
In another video that outraged social media users, an influencer said she was “going to die” because she was too stubborn to evacuate her home during the storm.
The roofs of houses were destroyed by the intense tornado winds
Calloway, 32, became one of the first Instagram influencers when she documented her time at England’s prestigious Cambridge University, but was found to have falsified her qualifications.
Calloway posted the full extent of her predicament on her Instagram Story on Tuesday evening from her new home in Florida.
“So if you’ve been following Hurricane Milton, uh, I’m dying! It would make landfall in the Sarasota-Bradenton area. I’m in Sarasota, I live on the water, it’s zone A, mandatory evacuation,” she said.
Another video showed a plane flying through Hurricane Milton, shaking and jerking aggressively as it endured extreme turbulence.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also known as “hurricane chasers,” flew through the hurricane, then ranked as a Category 5, toward the west coast of Florida on Tuesday.
A group of brave researchers were on board and conducted vital research, including predicting the path and future strength of the hurricane.
The plane tilted back and forth for about two minutes as it flew through the eye of the storm
The video showed the crew members holding on tight to the plane as the ride turned rocky.
In an update from the National Hurricane Center on Tuesday, Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday.
