Floridians battle fuel shortage amid Hurricane Milton clean up

Osvaldo Cruz, deals with debris and damage to the ground-floor garage level of his stilted home (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

Floridians recovering from Hurricane Milton, many of whom were journeying home after fleeing hundreds of miles to escape the storm, spent much of Saturday searching for petrol as a fuel shortage gripped the state.

In St. Petersburg, scores of people lined up at a station that had no petrol, hoping it would arrive soon.