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Today, I visited a logistics staging area at the Florida Horse Park in Ocala, one of our many staging sites just outside Hurricane Milton’s projected path. Florida and our partners have spent the past few days deploying personnel and equipment to strategically located sites like this.”
Your home can be rebuilt, your possessions can be replaced, but we cannot replace a life lost to the storm,
Nearly 600 ambulances and more than 30 paratransits are in operation. They will be nearby and ready to save lives as soon as the hurricane passes. The National Guard is deploying aerial, water, and ground search and rescue teams for the largest National Guard search and rescue mobilization in Florida history, ... Florida will have 43,000 linemen staged from all over the country, and they’ll be ready to restore power when it’s safe to do so.”
The climate crisis is here. It’s not a future problem, it’s a today problem, and it merits all of our attention.”
As the temperature of the planet increases, my confidence in forecasting storm intensity is decreasing.” ... I am afraid of rapid intensification cycles happening at the drop of a hat.”
However, ... He wrote in a 2023 essay But it wasn’t an exaggeration,
At this level the first floors of structures are completely flooded and there are few places that it is safe when the water rises this high
Commentating on the impending disaster, she said Everywhere is out of gas and roads are too backed up for him to [evacuate],
I was looking as far back as the Atlantic records go and there's not really any good analogs for this season, just how neurotic it´s been,
This is why a lot of people are staying behind, at a certain point traffic is so bad you cannot get out of Florida, or there's no gas
Sharing drone footage of clogged traffic along I-75 between Morris Bridge and Bruce B Downs on Monday, one X user said I think it's better to be here in case something happens
Gomez said as he waited in line Why would you come into a devastating hurricane that is going to do so much damage in our state and expect us to shelter tourists and then accommodate them after
We are closely monitoring the development of Hurricane Milton towards the United States
The Florida west coast is very sensitive to storm surge. It doesn’t take much to push water over land that would be dry,
said Cody Fritz, the Storm Surge Unit Team Lead at the National Hurricane Center More intense storms are going to be able to move more water, and large storms are going to move more water,
The continental shelf is quite shallow,
This is the ocean coming into your living rooms,
Cathie Perkins, director of Pinellas County Emergency Management, said Tuesday in a news briefing We still can't pinpoint an exact landfall location, especially if additional wobbles occur in the short term,
This could be the worst storm to hit Florida in over a century,
Today’s the last day to get ready,
said Craig Fugate, a former FEMA director who previously ran the state’s emergency operation division