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If the storm stays on the current track, it will be the worst storm to impact the Tampa area in over 100 years,
the National Weather Service's Tampa Bay office posted online We do not issue evacuation orders lightly,
Manatee County Public Safety Director Jodie Fiske said There's never been one like this,
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said Please. Please. Please take this storm seriously,
Manatee County Emergency Management Chief Matt Myers said in a press release about evacuations You do not want to wait for storm surge to start occurring before you take action. We have seen so many preventable tragedies during Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Ian,
said Jon Porter, AccuWeather’s chief meteorologist For every room we’ve had to cancel due to a convention or something not being able to get into the area, we’re refilling that room with somebody who’s impacted by this storm,
Jennifer Rice-Palmer, director of guest contact at Orlando’s Rosen Centre hotel, told the Orlando Sentinel There will likely not be enough time to wait to leave on Wednesday,
the National Hurricane Center in Miami cautioned in a mid-morning advisory Unfortunately every storm we see traffic fatalities because people wait until the last minute to leave,
Florida’s transportation secretary, Jared Perdue, said at a Tuesday morning press conference It’s a huge population. It’s very exposed, very inexperienced and that’s a losing proposition,
Kerry Emanuel, a meteorology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the Associated Press, referring to the storm as the “black swan” worst-case scenario experts have feared for years It’s part of living where we live, but it could be a big, scary thing for them,
Santos said, explaining why he left early with his children and was taking them to a theme park We want to assure everyone we have the resources to respond to both Helene and Milton,
Keith Turi, Fema’s acting associate administrator for response and recovery, told reporters on Monday We’re going to do our best to pick it up. If you do feel that it is going to become a projectile, you can secure that pile. Put it up against a tree, put it behind a fence,
Tim Devin, the Clay county emergency management director, told WJXT television station in Jacksonville You’ve got a limited number of people in any one place who can pick up trash, who can fix utilities, who can fix roofs and plumbing,
said Sarah Labowitz, disaster expert and non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Insurance markets already under siege from climate-related disasters are likely to buckle further under the weight of claims from these back-to-back storms,
said Rachel Cleetus, climate and energy policy director at the environmental non-profit Union of Concerned Scientists That kind of back-to-back disaster, it just compounds every aspect of recovery,
We can rebuild, we can repair, we can deal with the aftermath,
It’s worth emphasizing that this is a very serious situation, and residents in Florida should closely follow orders from their local emergency management officials,
the NHC advised on Tuesday Helene was a wake-up call, this is literally catastrophic,
We are trying to prepare our home best we can inside and pack up to leave to go to my daughters',
Winter Springs resident Denise Rossignolo-Brown told Fox News Digital On the one hand, the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to reduce inflation. However, the storms cause inflation by increasing the costs of goods,