Posts about × It claims to depict the Bait and Grill Shop on the Anna Maria City Pier being adrift at sea after being damaged by Hurricane Milton.

Anna Maria Islands City Pier Bait and Grill Shop is ripped off the rock and floating in the ocean by Hurricane Milton pic.twitter.com/U9rQe9mR2Q

— Frank fighting for freedom 🇺🇸 (@thinktankfranks) October 14, 2024

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The video shows the pier store still attached to the raised floor. The only thing damaged by the storm was the sidewalk connecting the store to the property.

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Hurricane Milton made landfall on the west coast of Florida on October 9, 2024, causing widespread damage including flooding and tornadoes. After the storm, aerial footage of the Anna Maria City Pier was shared on social media, with claims that businesses on the pier had been torn apart by the hurricane and were floating at sea.

However, this claim is inaccurate. of pictureFootage taken by a WFLA News Channel 8 helicopter on Oct. 12 shows the structure surrounded by water and a broken pier walkway, but the store itself remains firmly attached to the raised floor. Readers familiar with the pier said the store was in its normal location and pointed out that the video had misleading captions to spread false information.

About the leader memo In X it was stated: “This pier is not floating. This is the normal distance and location,” it continued, calling the post “a deliberate spread of false information for clicks and views.” Official sources such as City Pier Grill’s Facebook and Instagram Post It was confirmed that only the aisles, not the store itself, suffered significant damage after October 11th.

Brian Seymour, a managing member of GSM Partners LLC, which operates City Pier Grill and Bait Shop, also debunked the rumor in an email. Reuters“City Pier Grill and Bait Shop is not floating in the ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. It is firmly in its original location…In fact, we have lost 400 to 500 feet of the pier walkway that leads to land.”

Google street view Satellite images before the storm show a pier store in the same location. local media It was confirmed that the damage was limited to the sidewalk of the pier.

This isn’t the first time Check Your Fact has debunked misinformation about Hurricane Milton.