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I mean, the water's going to come in, it's going to rise,
I started looking at flights out of here, and... it was almost two grand for one seat. And it was like to Chicago, two stops,
said Goldrich, whose follower count on TikTok currently sits at 55,000 God told me to come out here and get a boat. I came out here I got a boat,
Dan is not leaving the boat for the hurricane,
Inside Hurricane Milton, @saildrone reported wave height of 28.12 feet and wind gusts as strong as 75.95 mph while 40 nautical miles from the center of the storm. This research represents a collaborative endeavor to better understand the role of the ocean in hurricanes,
the agency captioned the video on X (formerly Twitter). We're not gonna get the 15 feet that was predicted in the onset,
Storm surge is absolutely pouring into Venice, Florida now as hurricane #Milton makes landfall,
storm chaser Bryce Shelton wrote while sharing a video to X, formerly Twitter Surge has now crested the protective wall in Punta Gorda, FL and is now pouring into the city,
wrote storm chaser Brad Arnold while sharing a different video Hopefully [people in Tampa] are just sheltering in the place right now,
They are looking around and saying, 'what the hell is this?'
said Montagne, whose clients include finance industry executives who migrated to Florida during COVID I've been living here for 10 years, and the hurricanes have missed me for 10 years,
said Brian Hyndman, president and CEO of Blue Ocean Hurricanes are the most costly weather and climate extreme event to impact the US historically, in terms of total dollars and average cost per event,
Adam Smith, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), told Business Insider We took the plunge with our eyes wide open,
said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at $52 billion Chicago-based Cresset Asset Management, about his move to Palm Beach on Florida's east coast in 2015, ahead of the hurricane making landfall Rebuilding should provide a boost to economic activity in those affected regions in subsequent months, and potentially years,
Sweet told BI, quoting from his recent note While too early to make insured loss estimates, a major hurricane impact in one of Florida's most heavily populated regions could result in mid-double-digit billion dollar loss,
Jefferies equity analysts said in a note For Milton, tourism, trade and transportation will be hit,
Ryan Sweet, Oxford's chief US economist, told BI A 1-in-100 year event is estimated by some to result in $175bn in losses for landfall in the Tampa region, and $70bn in losses in the Ft Myers region,
Everything that you would want if you’re looking for a storm to go absolutely berserk is what Milton had,
Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach said The northern eyewall of Hurricane Milton is beginning to move onshore of the Florida gulf coast near Tampa and St. Petersburg where an Extreme Wind Warning is now in effect,
the hurricane center said in its latest advisory Placing vulnerable sites so close on major waterways that are at risk of damage from storms is a recipe for disaster,
said Ragan Whitlock, a staff attorney at the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity