One week after Hurricane Milton hit, Hillsborough County schools are set to be the final ones in Florida to resume classes. Hillsborough officials had looked into to reopen sooner, but persistent power outages in some locations kept the district from getting back on track.

▪ Destruction. Milton made landfall as a Category 3 storm on Siesta Key, a beach town on Sarasota’s coast, cut across Central Florida and vaulted out of the state Thursday morning just north of Cape Canaveral on the East Coast as a Cat 1 hurricane.

At least 16 people have died from Hurricane Milton, which roared onshore on Florida's west coast as a Category 3 hurricane, bringing tornadoes, powerful winds and flooding rains. The monster storm forced millions to evacuate and left widespread destruction across Florida.