Hurricane Milton made landfall around 9 p.m. on Oct. 9 near Siesta Key, just outside of Sarasota and roughly 70 miles south of Tampa. While the region was mostly unscathed from the storm surge, a historic amount of rain caused flooding across Tampa Bay. All this came less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated areas along the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay with upwards of eight feet of storm surge.