Hurricane Milton barrels through Florida leaving a trail of destruction

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The US state of Florida on Friday was clearing downed trees and power lines and mopping up flooded neighbourhoods after Hurricane Milton roared through leaving at least 16 people dead.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:30Well, looking at it, it's devastating, but the bottom line is as long as there's no life

00:45loss, things can be replaceable, but life cannot.

00:50So that's key.

00:51This is a lesson learned that if we tell people to evacuate, you need to evacuate.

00:57It's important that we leave and we stay safe, so we are grateful that there's no life loss

01:03and this can be fixed.

01:05We're currently in an apartment building on the 18th floor just a few blocks away, and

01:10of course we decided to stay and ride out the storm because commercial construction

01:14is pretty sturdy, but we were just watching everything unfold and the roof shredding off

01:22the Tropicana field.

01:26Our window space left, so we were just able to watch things going on, but we were worried

01:32about the cranes.

01:33The 400th Central will be our future home, and so it kind of hits home.

01:40It's really hard to see.

01:43I definitely didn't think that we were going to get the worst of it, which it sounds like

01:48we avoided the surge flooding, but the wind in and of itself was enough to cause the crane

01:55to fall and things were flying everywhere, doors were coming off.

02:00We heard it when it was first coming through, so we ended up going to the bathroom.

02:11As we were going to the bathroom to get cover and sit down on the floor and sit down, that's

02:17when the roof started pulling off.

02:20I started seeing outside of the house, all the windows busted out.

02:27It was devastating to the point everything from the attic went to flying around my house.

02:34The roof went to pulling off as the tornado was spinning on top of my house.

02:42I never experienced nothing like this in my life.

02:45It felt like I was in a movie.

02:50I'm very devastated from looking at how my place looks right now.

02:55It was very life-threatening.

02:56I felt like I was about to die.

02:59Tornado touched down on the other street, and it came through here and devastated everything.

03:06The roof was off, pushed houses over, everything.

03:11I was watching the news, and the news said a hurricane was coming, so get prepared for

03:15the hurricane.

03:16I tried to get prepared for the hurricane, then the tornado hit.

03:19I'm like, the tornado hit before the hurricane, that was a disaster.

03:25So I'm glad that me and my family made it out alive.

03:29We in good shape.

03:30This is a neighbor's house.

03:31I'm here helping the neighbor.

03:33I ain't even got my yard finished, but I love my neighbors like that.

03:41Alright, come on.

03:43Alright, bye.

04:11Bye.

04:12Bye.

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