Biden told reporters at the White House, “Experts estimate (…) that it caused damage amounting to approximately fifty billion dollars.”
The death toll rose as a result Hurricane Milton At least 16 people were killed, Friday, according to what officials in the state of Florida reported, at a time when residents began to return to their homes and work to restore their familiar rhythm of life, according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.
About 2.5 million homes and business headquarters remained without electricity, while some areas in the path of the extremely violent storm from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean remained submerged.
Milton hit the coast of Florida late Wednesday as a Category 3 storm, devastating areas that were still suffering from the effects of Hurricane Helen, which preceded it two weeks ago and killed 237 people in the southeastern United States.
On Siesta Key, an island near Sarasota where the storm made landfall, Milton left behind a harsh scene.
Some streets were still flooded Friday, and fallen tree trunks, debris and pieces of furniture were scattered randomly along the sides of the roads.
