Mandatory evacuation orders are underway, just a few weeks after Hurricane Helene hit the area.
Florida ’s Gulf Coast, Tampa’s mayor went on CNN Monday with an urgent warning for those who end up staying in evacuation areas: “You are going to die.”’s Kaitlan Collins that the storm surge—which is currently projected to be between 10 and 15 feet—would be disastrous for the low-lying area.
“My number one message, as it has been for several days now, is that you need to prepare, do whatever you need to do, and then get out of the evacuation zones, which now are evacuation zones“We have 126 miles of coast just in the city of Tampa, and so people need to be heeding that warning, and from the looks of traffic on all of our northbound highways, they’re doing just that,” she said, alluding to slow-moving lanes heading out of the city.
As of 8 p.m. Monday, Milton’s maximum sustained wind speeds were 180 miles per hour, making it one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record. It is expected to make landfall late Wednesday. As many as 15 million Floridians are under flood watches.
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