These Solar-Powered Homes Kept Lights on Through Hurricane Milton

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Newsweek- As Hurricane Milton churned toward Florida's Gulf Coast last Wednesday, housing developer Marshall Gobuty watched the forecasts anxiously. The storm track maps showed Milton heading directly toward the new homes his company, Pearl Homes, recently built in the coastal town of Cortez, just south of Tampa Bay.

"You see the red line, and I'm going, 'Oh, come on!'" he recalled in an interview with Newsweek after the storm had passed.

Milton made landfall just a dozen or so miles south of Cortez as a Category 3 hurricane, bringing a massive storm surge and damaging winds and downpours.

"I've never seen rain come perfectly sideways, but it was really flying," Gobuty said.

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