Langston Taylor

Oct 9, 2024 | tampabay.com | Langston Taylor |Teghan Simonton

About 2 million customers in Florida have already lost power Wednesday night from Hurricane Milton, which made landfall near Siesta Key in Sarasota County before cutting across the middle of the state. Here you can track how many people are without power in your county. The map includes outage numbers for large providers including Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy, Tampa Electric and more. Data is collected by PowerOutage.us, which tracks about 11.5 million customers in Florida.

Oct 9, 2024 | news.yahoo.com | Langston Taylor |Teghan Simonton

Florida power outage map: Where electricity is out from MiltonAbout 2 million customers in Florida have already lost power Wednesday night from Hurricane Milton, which made landfall near Siesta Key in Sarasota County before cutting across the middle of the state. Here you can track how many people are without power in your county. The map includes outage numbers for large providers including Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy, Tampa Electric and more.

Oct 8, 2024 | tampabay.com | Zachary Sampson |Langston Taylor

When a hurricane barrels toward Florida, there’s one question everyone wants to answer:Where, exactly, will it hit? With Hurricane Milton, that question could matter for Tampa Bay even more than in most storms. Unlike Hurricane Helene two weeks ago, the worst of Milton’s surge flooding could be decided by just a few miles’ difference in track. Here’s why.

Oct 6, 2024 | tampabay.com | Langston Taylor

The latest: Hurricane Milton developed Sunday afternoon off the coast of Mexico. Milton is set to move east through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida and is projected to strengthen into a major hurricane before landfall. Tampa Bay is squarely in Milton’s path. Forecasters say there’s an increasing chance of life-threatening storm surge and damaging winds across the Florida peninsula. Hurricane conditions are possible along nearly all of Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Oct 2, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Langston Taylor |Ivy Nyayieka |Shreya Vuttaluru |Jack Prator

For Tampa Bay, Helene was the worst storm in a centuryTampa Bay’s regulars — barkeeps, retirees, refugees — all had the same reaction this week in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, no matter what part of the region they call home. Never seen it this bad. Never seen water so high. Never seen it come anywhere close to our door. No one expected this. All my life and it’s never flooded. Hurricanes aren’t new here.