Hurricane Milton crashed into the Florida coast Wednesday, packing furious winds and triggering life-threatening storm surges across a region still reeling from another massive storm two weeks before.
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President Joe Biden was briefed on the"initial impacts" of Milton, the White House said, as responses from Democrats and Republicans are likely to be closely scrutinized with just four weeks until the tightly-contested US presidential election. In cities up and down Florida's western coast, the wind howled furiously and torrential rain fell as people took shelter wherever they could.
"I am nervous. This is something we just went through with the other storm -- ground saturated, still recovering from that," Randy Prior, who owns a pool business, told AFP. "There's been a reckless, irresponsible and relentless promotion of disinformation and outright lies," Biden said in angry remarks.
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