Thankfully for Floridians, the damage from Hurricane Milton wasn't as severe as expected. That was due to a sudden weakening of the storm's strength as it approached the shoreline as well as a slight shift in the storm's path that mostly spared Tampa.
But the impact has been quite extensive: A streak of tornadoes and floods powered by Milton has killed at least 16 people and displaced tens of thousands more; various parts of western Florida have been drenched with mud, while others are sifting through mountains of debris from torn-up infrastructure.
It's in large part thanks to the efforts of meteorologists' warnings and mass evacuation orders that Milton wasn't more fatal than it was.
Fox News kept claiming that FEMA is granting disaster funds only to new immigrants and denying other survivors, even after one of its reporters hosted a segment on a congressional fact sheet debunking that conspiracy.
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