Across Florida, nearly 30% of stations were without fuel, with 77.5% of those shortages reported in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. “The norm in a major hurricane, debris takes sometimes a year to get picked up,” DeSantis said. A man cleans debris inside a gas station store in Lakewood Park, Florida, after a tornado hit the area as Hurricane Milton swept through on October 10, 2024. “Many areas in the county have incurred severe property damage because of back-to-back impacts from Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton,” Pinellas County Consumer Protection said in a public advisory Thursday. Its teams continued Saturday searching for people who went missing after Hurricane Helene in Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Florida.

Source: CNN October 12, 2024 17:39 UTC