President Joe Biden on Sunday visited Florida for the second time in a little more than a week to tour storm-ravaged communities as the state grappled with hundreds of thousands of power outages, gas shortages and persistent flooding in the wake of deadly Hurricane Milton.
After an aerial tour over stretches of battered coastline and the shredded roof of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Biden delivered remarks in St. Pete Beach, one of the many communities along the west-central coast of Florida reeling after the one-two punch of hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Biden said while the state avoided the worst-case scenario, Milton wrought widespread destruction, submerging entire neighborhoods under several feet of floodwater, destroying homes, and killing at least 17 people.
