Hurricane Milton made landfall around 8:30 pm on Wednesday (0030 GMT on Thursday) as an “extremely dangerous Category 3” storm, hitting the Siesta Key on the west coast of Florida, the National Hurricane Center reported. The storm winds were up to 193 kilometres per hour, the meterologists said. Milton had been a category 5 storm as it was moving toward Florida from the Gulf of Mexico, but was downgraded to a category 4 before being lowered to a level 3 before it hit. However, given the sheer size of the storm, the warnings remained just as urgent. US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro M…