ENGLEWOOD, Fla. — Sand is piled up to the first floor of most homes on Manasota Key, a sliver of land off Florida’s west coast, where devastation is widespread.
The community, about 30 miles south of where Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday, sits across a bay from Englewood, between Fort Myers and Sarasota.
Scenes of devastation in Manasota Key, Fla., on Sunday after Hurricane Milton made landfall nearby.
The rooms at the Sea Oats Beach Club in Manasota Key are filled with upward of 3 feet of sand.
More than 750,000 Floridians are still without power five days after Milton made landfall, according to PowerOutage.us.
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