The backside of Hurricane Milton brought a dangerous storm surge to downtown Sarasota, which turned some city streets into raging rivers Wednesday night.

Cities were hit with dangerous storm surges as Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday night. Rapidly rising water levels were reported in multiple areas while the hurricane hit the coastline near Siesta Key in Sarasota County as a powerful Category 3 storm at around 8:30 p.