HURRICANE UPDATE: Catastrophic scenes as hurricane, multiple tornados, roar across Florida

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Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida as a Category 3 storm Wednesday evening, with 120 mph winds, and left a path of destruction behind.

Ahead of the hurricane’s arrival, over 120 tornado warnings were issued, and tornados ripped through multiple communities, including Vero Beach, Fort Pierce, Wellington, Palm Beach Gardens, Stuart, the Everglades, and Fort Myers.

As of 10 p.m.ET, an estimated 2 million customers in Florida were without power, and the storm had weakened to a Category 2, with winds at 110 mph.

Footage posted o social media shows homes destroyed, cars flipped, trees uprooted, streets flooded, and a sheriff’s building in Fort Pierce reduced to a pile of twisted steel.

St. Lucie County Sheriff Keith Pearson said, “About ten minutes ago, a tornado came ripping through here. This is a devastating tornado. It took out that 10,000 square foot red iron building with all of our patrol cars underneath it.”

As the hurricane was approaching, a man was caught on a Live cam putting up a Trump flag on a pier in Naples, Florida. Some on social media have dubbed him as “Patriot of the day.”

The Avenir neighborhood of Palm Beach Gardens, just north of Palm Beach, Florida, was hit especially hard by a devastating tornado.

A large portable dumpster container is seen on top of the roof of one home.

In St. Petersburg, the Topicana Field stadium, home of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, has lost its roof. The field had been set up with thousands of cots and was being used as a shelter for National Guard troops, linemen and first responders.

Below is a photo shared on social media when the cots were being set up on Monday.

In Tampa, streets are flooded.

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