Taped to a mailbox on Siesta Key’s Palm Island was a hastily ... But this is saltwater from the Gulf. We’ve never had a storm ...

Hurricane Milton has made official landfall near Siesta Key, Fla ... says there's a "life-threatening storm surge, extreme ...

Lester Holt Reporting from Siesta Key ... shows homes knocked over and in shambles, with one destroyed house now down the block from where it once stood, thanks to the storm surge from Helene.

Following Milton, whose eye made landfall on Siesta Key ... storm surge from Hurricane Helene and then Milton re-opened Midnight Pass. Now with the flow between Sarasota Bay and the Gulf ...

For more than 40 years, locals have debated whether or not to reopen Midnight Pass, which separated Casey Key and Siesta Key and connected Sarasota Bay to the Gulf ... and close over time due ...