Nearly a week after Hurricane Milton made landfall, Trailer Estates remains in shambles. The mobile home community in Bradenton is filled with debris, roofs falling off, downed power lines, and destruction.

Residents in Bradenton and Palmetto may have noticed fleets of unfamiliar law enforcement vehicles in town after Hurricane Milton.

I don’t know how I’ll ever be able to live there. But I have nowhere else to go,” said an 82-year-woman said, choking back tears.

Many of Florida’s residents ages 65 and older live in retirement communities with manufactured homes, which are easily destroyed during a storm. And many are also on a fixed income and hurricane