US president to visit areas hit by hurricane on Sunday; more than 1,600 people rescued from floods and rubble

• Tell us: how have you been affected by Hurricane Milton?

Hurricane Milton made landfall as a category 3 hurricane on Wednesday night at around 8.30pm near Siesta Key in Florida. For about eight hours, the storm brought intense rainfall, flooding, tornadoes, storm surge and strong winds before moving off over the ocean just north of Cape Canaveral as a category 1 hurricane.

Our visual team have put together this visual guide to the damage caused: