Hurricane Milton left behind a path of destruction across the Tampa Bay area after making landfall in Siesta Key Wednesday evening. Many residents are still experiencing power outages, but lineworkers from across the country are working to turn the lights back on.

Some customers in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties aren't expected to have power back until Thursday, Oct. 17.

DADE CITY — Pasco County schools superintendent Kurt Browning took one look around the gymnasium at Pasco High School, his alma mater, and couldn’t disguise his reaction. “Gosh, this is horrible,” Browning said Friday,

The number of power outages in the area are staggering. Millions across the Tampa Bay area were without power Thursday, and thousands of line crews from across the country are helping to restore power.

Port Tampa Bay’s fuel terminals revived Friday afternoon, promising some relief to Tampa Bay residents struggling to find gas for cars and generators. Three out of seven fuel terminals were expected to be ready to offload fuel onto trucks and toward gas stations by Friday evening,

Tampa Bay and Sarasota awoke Thursday to assess damage from Hurricane Milton, which made landfall near Siesta Key in Sarasota County as a Category 3 Wednesday night. In the hours that followed, it tore across the state,