After Hurricane Milton came ashore on Florida’s Gulf coast, Carla Simionescu was reassuring relieved relatives on Thursday morning on the phone while she took photos of the tree branches, rocks, bits of wood and other debris littering the front yard and gravel driveway of her Sarasota house.
The 46-year-old waitress lives a mere six miles (10km) from the seaside community of Siesta Key, where the storm made landfall at around 8.30pm on Wednesday evening.
