ST PETE BEACH, Florida: US President Joe Biden on Sunday (Oct 13) surveyed the damage from Florida’s Hurricane Milton, the second storm to batter the low-lying state in latest weeks as rising floodwaters, gasoline shortages and energy outages additional impacted cleanup efforts.
Milton, which led to at the least 17 reported deaths, has added to piles of particles following Hurricane Helene, with electrical energy and gasoline nonetheless unavailable in lots of areas.
Biden’s Marine One helicopter thundered alongside Florida’s western coast from Tampa to St Petersburg over a panorama of golf programs, waterfront skyscrapers. The aerial tour confirmed communities battered by the storm and provided a firsthand view of the shredded roof of Tampa Bay Rays’ baseball stadium, Tropicana Subject in St Petersburg.
On the bottom, Biden handed complete neighborhoods in St Pete Seaside with particles piled on avenue corners subsequent to felled palm bushes and houses with their pastel-painted storage doorways busted because the odor of moldy constructing supplies stuffed the air.
