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There were cars lifted and flipped upside down, moved hundreds of yards,
I don’t want to be nice,
The storm may have passed, but it is still dangerous to be traveling this morning,
the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post We're incredibly grateful to Taylor Swift for her generous $5 million donation to Hurricanes Helene and Milton relief efforts,
We are not going to get into how many, but I can tell you it's more than one person who has lost their life that we already recovered,
I'm in Sarasota, I live on the water, it's zone A, mandatory evacuation,
It's a matter of life and death, and that's not hyperbole."
Earlier, President Joe Biden called Milton "one of the most destructive hurricanes in Florida in over a century," ... adding: The significance of the coastal change forecast for Milton's impact to the Florida west coast cannot be overstated as I believe communities are more vulnerable to this storm's impacts due to the erosion that occurred recently from Helene,
Kara Doran, a USGS scientist, said You have to shelter in place and just hunker down."
Shortly before the hurricane made landfall, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urged Much of the central portion of the peninsula... is at risk of devastating hurricane-force winds, especially in gusts over the inland areas that can cause structural damage, tree damage and widespread power outages."
The thing is it’s so difficult to evacuate in a peninsula,
Unfortunately, there will be fatalities. I don’t think there’s any way around that,
This is the beginning of the storm,
Sheriff Pearson said, noting the long road to recovery ahead This is it, folks,
said Cathie Perkins, emergency management director in Pinellas County, which sits on the peninsula that forms Tampa Bay It's definitely out of the ordinary,
said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini There's an incredible amount of swirling going on,
Gensini said of the conditions that allowed for the twisters to grow Numerous counties have reported tornado damage,
I told her to pack like you aren’t coming back,
Search-and-rescue teams are on their way,
This is a devastating tornado,