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Milton has the potential to be one of the most destructive hurricanes on record for west-central Florida,
the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday in an advisory 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,
We still can't pinpoint an exact landfall location, especially if additional wobbles occur in the short term,
This is the ocean coming into your living rooms,
Cathie Perkins, director of Pinellas County Emergency Management, said Tuesday in a news briefing We are already very saturated. It's not going to take much water, and rainfall well ahead of this storm is going to put rivers into flood already,
Most of our rivers in west central and south Florida will be going into some stage of flood over the coming days,
Do you live near a river, canal or creek? As Hurricane #Milton approaches the Florida West Coast, please keep in mind that storm surge can travel inland up these waterways,
It all depends on the river,
Wynn said about expected flood time There's never been one like this,
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said in an interview on CNN This interactive map enables individuals to identify facilities that handle hazardous materials in the storm's path,
Dominic Boyer, CFAR co-director and a professor of anthropology at Rice, said in the statement Unfortunately, as past storms have shown us, those residing near the major polluters in Milton's trajectory might face the true disaster in the aftermath of the storm,
James Elliott, co-director of CFAR, department chair and the David W. Leebron Professor of Sociology at Rice, said in a statement Counties began issuing evacuation on Monday, and 'there's still plenty of time for warnings and to get the word out and make sure Floridians are braced for storm of this magnitude,
More often, what we see is hurricanes that develop in the northwest Caribbean or even come into the Gulf from the Atlantic, then recurve and hit the west coast of Florida, like Hurricane Charlie in 2004, Hurricane Ian in 2022, Hurricane Wilma that hit southwest Florida in 2005,
They probably didn't have the time or the resources to prepare for this one as much as they normally would,
So, I don't think we'll see a repeat of that kind of thing ever again,
Fluctuations in intensity are likely while Milton moves across the eastern Gulf of Mexico, but Milton is expected to be a dangerous major hurricane when it reaches the west-central coast of Florida Wednesday night,
the NHC said in its latest update This storm isn't normal it's packed with an unusual amount of energy."
This is literally catastrophic and I can say without any dramatization whatsoever, if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you’re going to die,