Bradenton-area residents woke up Thursday morning to find downed trees, major flooding and nearly 80% of Manatee County without power in Hurricane Milton’s aftermath. As of 7 a.m. Thursday, more than 200,000 residents and businesses in Manatee County were affected by the outage, according to Find Energy.

At the Warner Bayou Boat Ramp in Bradenton, the morning before Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall, waters rose high around 3 a.m. Rain poured down on the