Hurricane Milton strengthened to a Category 5 storm on Monday as it takes aim at Florida's west coast. Landfall is expected as a Category 3 hurricane Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. Milton is closing in as Floridians are still recovering from the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene.

The last time the eye of a major storm like Hurricane Milton directly struck Tampa Bay was 1921 when the city was a sleepy backwater

Tampa Bay – the nation's most vulnerable metro area to storm surge – could be about to see its worst flooding in over a century.