I agreed to buy a house in the path of Milton

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OP I know you don’t want to hear this, but please, if you haven’t occupied the house yet:

Now that the hurricane has moved on, get the house re-inspected, and have the current owners fix any issues before you move in.

And make sure they’re not hiding anything.

It’s really common for people to try and hide water damage after hurricanes in FL.

If anything is found, do not move in until the issues are fixed. Once you’re in the house, that’s it - even if you find something later, you’re on your own, and you’re going to be really upset if it ends up being major / expensive that was hidden or done cheaply.

The home inspection got moved because of the storm so if the house gets damaged we still have the right to back out of the contract.

It sounds like the house inspection has to occur after the storm, so there's no re-inspection, just a post-hurricane inspection.

Now, on this October day, almost the entire state is feeling the effects of Hurricane Milton, which roared ashore Wednesday with catastrophic consequences. More than three million people are without power. At least five are dead. And “this was not the worst-case scenario,” as Gov. Ron DeSantis said.

Milton is the second major hurricane to hit Florida in two weeks, and climate change is creating new risks across the state.

Warm oceans are making storms more powerful, sea level rise is leading to flooding and erosion, and overdevelopment is putting more people in jeopardy. All of which is raising new questions about the future of Florida.

Around midnight last night, as Milton was thrashing Orlando, I called the novelist and journalist Carl Hiaasen, a Florida legend and longtime chronicler of the state’s grifters and glories in books like “Hoot,” “Strip Tease” and “Bad Monkey.” Hiaasen, who often writes about environmental issues, told me that global warming had forever changed a state he loves.

“When I was a kid in the ’50s and ’60s, hurricanes were always thought of as a South Florida phenomena,” he said. “Now, there’s no place in Florida that’s safe.”