Less than two weeks later, on October 9, Category 3 Hurricane Milton directly targeted the Sarasota area, just south of Tampa Bay, as what's predicted to be one of the costliest storms on record. While insured losses are already mounting well into the billions of dollars,

People across the Tampa Bay area are counting down the minutes until power is turned back on. TECO says that by Tuesday, 75% of customers should have power back on.

HOW ‘STORM OF THE CENTURY’ COMPARES, IN VISUALS : Deaths, power outages, and billions in destruction; the damage of Hurricane Milton is still unfolding, but is it one of the worst this century? Alicja