Hurricane Milton had just crashed into Florida with 100-mph winds when Tampa Bay Times journalists Zachary T. Sampson and Chris Urso prepared to deploy toward landfall in Sarasota County. Plans changed when they heard about the Trop.

A crane that was left up in St. Petersburg, Florida, when Hurricane Milton hit ended up being blown over into a nearby building

No one was injured when the crane working on a 46-story condominium and office budling — which will be the tallest residential tower on Florida's Gulf coast — crashed into a nearby building where the Tampa Bay Times is located.

Drone footage released by the City of St. Petersburg, Fla., on Oct. 10, shows how Hurricane Milton devastated an office building and Tropicana Field.

As Hurricane Milton slammed into the Florida coast, video shows a massive crane that was toppled in downtown St. Petersburg.

It's a reflection of the news industry and modern world of work that Tampa Bay Times editor Mark Katches seems more relaxed than you'd expect after a crane pushed by Hurricane Milton's winds gouged a hole in the building that houses his newsroom.

The newspaper reported that none of its employees were working in the newsroom when the crane fell into its St. Petersburg building

A construction crane fell from a 46-story skyscraper and onto the building that houses the Tampa Bay Times, bashing a "gaping hole" in the eight-story office tower that newsroom staffers had vacated ahead of Hurricane Milton's thrashing winds.