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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 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 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 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 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 Helene was a wake-up call, this is literally catastrophic,
It's a matter of life and death, and that's not hyperbole,
President Joe Biden said, urging those under orders to vacate to "evacuate now, now, now." I think it's better to be here in case something happens,
Gomez said as he waited in line I fear that he really lacks empathy on a very basic level,
Our home is unlivable and we are evacuating inland but I can barely contain my rage at the oil companies that have allowed unchecked climate pollution so they can profit,
West coast Florida residents like myself are looking at as much as 15 feet (4.5m) of storm surge – double what we saw with hurricane Helene,
said Susan Glickman, with the CLEO Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to climate education and advocacy That level of storm surge would be catastrophic for the Tampa metro area, inundating low-lying areas,
Phil Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University, told Al Jazeera It’s a huge population. It’s very exposed, very inexperienced, and that’s a losing proposition,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel said The warming from climate pollution is causing seas to rise, extreme heat, monster hurricanes and storm surge,
On the one hand, the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to reduce inflation. However, the storms cause inflation by increasing the costs of goods,
Milton can result in significant losses of vegetables and fruit crops such as oranges and tomatoes, which can have an even greater impact than Helene on agriculture,
Myers said in a statement to the media on Monday We also have now close to 40,000 utility linemen in the state of Florida or en route,
DeSantis said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends