During Hurricane Helene, the aquarium took on 3 feet of water along the wharf, marking the first time in the aquarium’s 30 years that water breached the wharf. With a bigger storm surge forecast for Milton, aquarium officials are expecting the first floor to take on water.

Milton remains a powerful Category 4 hurricane and is expected to make landfall late Wednesday night or shortly after midnight

Influencer and author Caroline Calloway worried followers when she claimed she was not evacuating her coastal home amid Hurricane Milton warning, despite the fact that she said she lives in a "mandatory evacuation" zone in Sarasota.