Hurricane Milton spared Florida the catastrophic devastation that many feared but left at least five people dead and more than 3 million customers without power after it blazed a tornado-filled path across the state.

Hurricane Milton continued to weaken early Thursday as it made its way northeast across the Florida Peninsula after making landfall near Sarasota on the west coast Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm.

See photos after Hurricane Milton made landfall near Sarasota, Florida, bringing further devastation to a state still reeling from Helene.