AccuWeather correspondent Leslie Hudson reported live from South Daytona on Oct. 11 as flooding from Milton continued, prompting more and more water rescues.
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00:00Hurricane Milton's powerful wind and storm surge damaged homes and businesses on both
00:05coasts of Florida.
00:06That's right.
00:07AccuWeather correspondent Leslie Hudson is joining us once again right now.
00:10She's live in Daytona Beach Shores with an update.
00:14Leslie.
00:15Yeah, yeah, Damien.
00:19So the interesting thing is, you know, 24 hours or less after a hurricane, people want
00:24to get back in their homes and assess the damage.
00:26And that is, of course, that when people have been doing today, we've seen numerous
00:31people, hundreds, get back into their homes now that the curfew has been lifted.
00:35The problem is there are still search, not search, but rescues.
00:39And there are wellness checks going on throughout Volusia County.
00:42Four of the fatalities were here in and around South Daytona, where we are.
00:47So the crews are trying to still check on everybody.
00:51There are numerous dozens of calls that are coming into the Volusia County Sheriff's Office
00:56trying to make sure that everybody is accounted for and is safe.
01:00As we talked to one of the residents here in South Daytona who did get out in time yesterday.
01:06His name is Brandon Bells.
01:08And unfortunately, some of the residents here did stay behind.
01:11They did get water into their homes.
01:13And we are getting reports, in fact, one of Brandon's neighbors apparently left their
01:17pets.
01:18We actually were with a high water rescue crew at the time, so they were able to get
01:23in touch with animal services.
01:24And they were doing wellness checks on the animals.
01:27They were not in distress.
01:28But that is a scenario, just one of a multi-pronged effort here to try and get animals out of
01:34homes, people out of homes, special need people into shelters.
01:38It's a tremendous effort from these people.
01:40We talked to Brandon and how he is doing.
01:43And it's an emotional time for these folks.
01:45We got out before it got bad because we knew it flooded from the end.
01:49But we moved in afterwards.
01:50Everything seemed fine.
01:51It was nice set up inside.
01:52But, wow, we did, because this happened so fast.
02:04And there was just, again, so many water rescues here.
02:06At least 75, 12 were today, alone, and they expect to have some more issues on the up
02:12and coming weekend.
02:13Weather has been good for the most part.
02:15We're getting a shower now.
02:16But folks are trying to assess their damage.
02:18We are reporting live from South Daytona.
02:20I'm Leslie Hudson.
02:21Back to you.