Residents have been told to evacuate or die. The Category 5 storm follows two weeks after Category 4 Hurricane Helene hit the area
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.TAMPA, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 09: Tampa looks deserted as residents prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Milton on October 09, 2024 in Tampa, Florida. Milton, which comes just after the recent catastrophic Hurricane Helene, has strengthened to a Category 4 storm as it approaches Florida’s Gulf Coast and is expected to make landfall late Wednesday.
“It’s a matter of life and death, and that’s not hyperbole,” Biden said from the White House on Tuesday, urging those under orders to leave to “evacuate now, now, now”. Tampa’s mayor, Jane Castor, warned residents on CNN: “If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die.”“Basically the entire peninsula portion of Florida is under some type of either a watch or a warning,” he said.
Donald Trump has tapped into frustration about the emergency response after Hurricane Helene and fuelled it with disinformation, falsely claiming that disaster money had been spent instead on migrants. John Gomez, 75, ignored official advice and travelled all the way from Chicago to try to save a second house he has in Florida.But Katie, in her 30s, heeded the call to evacuate and arrived in Orlando with her five-year-old son and dog from St Petersburg, a coastal city where Hurricane Helene had brought about a metre of floodwater into her bayside home two weeks ago.
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