Tens of thousands of Florida residents without power as Hurricane Milton slams into the Sunshine State. Many Florida energy companies warned customers in advance to prepare for outages caused by the storm.

Nearly 2.5 million people are without power after Hurricane Milton swept through Florida on Wednesday and Thursday. The storm made landfall in the state on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, the storm left Florida through its east coast and headed toward the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean.

About two million customers in Florida have already lost power Wednesday night from Hurricane Milton, which made landfall near Siesta Key in Sarasota County before cutting across the middle of the state.