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In pictures: Hurricane Milton exits Florida, raising death toll to 12

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Hurricane Milton is confimed to have killed 12 people before exiting Florida.

The fierce storm, as described by meteorologists, came through Florida as a Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday night, tearing down lamp poles, traffic lights and ripping signs out of the ground.

It exited out to sea as Category 1, leaving neighborhoods flooded and homes without roofs.

3.4 million people are without electricity as of 11:30 today.

A house, center, lies toppled off its stilts after the passage of Hurricane Milton, alongside an empty lot where a home was swept away by Hurricane Helen, in Bradenton Beach on Anna Maria Island, Fla., on Thursday.

In this aerial view, Flood waters inundate a neighborhood after Hurricane Milton came ashore in Punta Gorda, Florida. The storm made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in the Siesta Key area of Florida, causing damage and flooding throughout Central Florida.

Residents are rescued from an their second story apartment complex in Clearwater that was flooded from and overflowing creek due to Hurricane Milton in Florida. Hurricane Milton felled trees, tore roofs off buildings, and flooded streets, leaving residents of the Florida coast surveying a trail of destruction in a state still reeling from another massive storm two weeks earlier.

Boats rest in a yard after they were washed ashore when Hurricane Milton passed through the area in Punta Gorda, Florida. The storm made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in the Siesta Key area of Florida, causing damage and flooding throughout Central Florida.

Max Watts, of Buford, Ga., walks in the parking lot to check on a trailer parked outside the hotel where he is riding out Hurricane Milton with coworkers in Tampa, Fla. Watts, who works for a towing company, was deployed with colleagues to Florida to aid in the aftermath of the storm.

Robert Haight looks around his destroyed house after it was hit by a reported tornado in Fort Myers, Florida, on October 9, 2024, as Hurricane Milton approached.

Cars move slowly after Hurricane Milton damaged power lines, in Matlacha, Fla.

A view shows a collapsed construction crane that fell on the building that also hosts the offices of the Tampa Bay Times, after Hurricane Milton made landfall, in downtown St. Petersburg, Fla.

An aerial view of Tropicana Field's shredded roof in downtown St. Petersburg, Fla., in the wake of Hurricane Milton.

Photo credit: Getty and Associated Press

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