My plane landed in Florida 12 hours after Hurricane Milton had subsided, and I wasn’t sure what to expect when leaving the airport. I was in town to report on a rocket launch, and rented a car to drive from Orlando to nearby Titusville, on Florida’s east coast. Titusville is an odd juxtaposition: a sleepy Southern hamlet, rural as it gets, and also home to Kennedy Space Center, most advanced operational spaceport on planet Earth. The storm had passed directly over it.
I live in New Orleans, where hurricanes are a part of life, so I had a little insight on what Floridians faced, what the storm left behind, and how locals might at once celebrate and cope with its departure.
