Colorado football deletes post with player underwater for UCF game after Hurricane Helene deaths

The University of Colorado’s football team, led by head coach Deion Sanders, will play the University of Central Florida Saturday in Orange County, Florida.Hurricane Helene has wreaked havoc in recent days across multiple states, including Florida, with a death toll over 40 and an expected $15 billion to $26 billion in property damage.Despite this destruction, Colorado’s social media team posted on social media Friday a computer-designed graphic showing safety Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig standing on a Florida beach with water up to his knees. The post said “24 hours,” an apparent reference to the countdown to the game Saturday.The post was later deleted from Colorado’s social media account.The image also had a sign in the background that said “Beware of Sharks,” an apparent reference to Silmon-Craig’s nickname, “Shark.” Fox News Digital has reached out to the Colorado football program for comment but had not received a response before the time of publication. Flooding has been one of the biggest destructive forces of the hurricane, beginning along Florida’s coast well before Hurricane Helene made landfall, with rapidly rising waters reported as far south as Fort Myers on the state’s Gulf Coast.FOX Weather’s Ian Oliver said the surge quickly flooded streets around St.

Pete Beach Thursday evening, with high tide several hours away.The hurricane made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region, after intensifying into a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph.The monster hurricane is unleashing a potentially “unsurvivable” 20-foot storm surge, catastrophic hurricane-force winds and flooding.The National Weather Service in Tallahassee issued a rare extreme wind warning for several counties in the Big Bend ahead of the approach of the eyewall.The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said there is a significant risk of a life-threatening storm surge along the entire west coast of the Florida Peninsula, as well as Florida’s B...