A third hurricane headed for Florida

acLazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Florida and the Big Bend Region can’t seem to catch a break this hurricane season. First it was Debby in August, then Helene in September, and now Milton is heading toward the peninsula, with the potential to affect our region. On the heels of Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 storm that struck the Big Bend a little more than a week ago and caused untold devastation across six states, the National Hurricane Center (NCH) is now warning about Milton, which formed as a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday and quickly intensified into a Category 4 storm on Monday morning, with expectations that it would make landfall in Florida by midweek