As Hurricane Milton plowed through Manatee County, 1,154 inmates were left behind at the county jail in Palmetto, which sits in a mandatory evacuation area. Randy Warren, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office, told the Bradenton Herald that 117 staff members, 10 nurses and two paramedics worked through the storm at the jail.

At the Warner Bayou Boat Ramp in Bradenton, the morning before Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall, waters rose high around 3 a.m. Rain poured down on the homeless and last-minute preppers heading to open gas stations in the dark hours of the morning.

Severe wind damage is apparent in Manatee County where neighbors there thought on Wednesday night, they would take the direct hit from Hurricane Milton as a