Why this Florida man is staying in face of Hurricane Milton: "Help my neighbours as best I can"

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  • Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
  • Cedar Key, Fla., resident Michael Bobbitt explains why he's staying behind in the face of Hurricane Milton and what he plans to do for his neighbours.
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Комментарии • 93

  • @christineblaszczyk1602
    @christineblaszczyk1602 2 дня назад +65

    You can't help anyone if you're dead. Get these seniors a ride out of there.

    • @adamtajhassam9188
      @adamtajhassam9188 2 дня назад +1

      Also citizens need to stand up help each other - even voluntary. Govt created laws to help you allnot make it out in action. Stop following ur unjust laws if you value ur pathetic lives; before its too late.

  • @SrgFani11
    @SrgFani11 2 дня назад +57

    If I was him, I would highly encourage all my elderly neighbors to leave and go to the nearest shelter. Assist them with coordinating transportation and ensure they have medications and important documents. You should not risk your life, but I commend you, sir!! I'm praying for all of Florida. ❤

  • @Wendy-nj5qs
    @Wendy-nj5qs 3 дня назад +73

    What a kind soul to stay behind to help his elderly neighbors. Thank you Sir!

    • @DonnellOkafor-r2d
      @DonnellOkafor-r2d 2 дня назад +11

      He better be prepared to lose his life.
      Very foolish decision. Milton is going to be a category 5

    • @AckReikTheGreatest07
      @AckReikTheGreatest07 2 дня назад

      @@DonnellOkafor-r2d Whatever you say, coward.

    • @DesiraeJ
      @DesiraeJ 2 дня назад +1

      HERO STATUS❤

    • @lucibelle
      @lucibelle 2 дня назад +5

      Help them how? Emergency vehicles stop dispatching at 55mph winds. You can’t drive in these storms. If you’re close enough to the eye, you can’t even walk in these storms.
      If he wants to help his neighbors, he should be doing it by getting them out of Cedar Key.

    • @lucibelle
      @lucibelle 2 дня назад +7

      Moron status. He won’t be able to do anything once the storm hits. If he were a hero, he’d be getting them out.

  • @AvaGauthier-hn6yo
    @AvaGauthier-hn6yo 2 дня назад +40

    I would evacuate period.

    • @dancalvano8702
      @dancalvano8702 2 дня назад

      He’s in Ceder Key, he’s fine. It’s the Bradenton/Sarasota/Tampa area of florida that screwed

    • @TL-s1b
      @TL-s1b 2 дня назад

      But there’s another soul dislike him and Sarasota and Tampa as well one fellow somewhere refuses to leave his little boat

  • @nanetteharris615
    @nanetteharris615 2 дня назад +19

    I grew up in Sarasota. I'm 60 and can remember a lot of them. Hurricanes change directions. Prayers to all those who couldn't make it out.❤

  • @wethepeople2206
    @wethepeople2206 2 дня назад +23

    Where are the families of these Elders? 🎉here your flowers 💐 just saying 😢

  • @leonienolan511
    @leonienolan511 2 дня назад +56

    Crazy . Get them all out before it's to late ..you can always return ..wind kills too 😢

  • @spacedout3233
    @spacedout3233 2 дня назад +14

    It's not that the wind is blowing. It's what the wind is blowing. If you get hit with a volvo, your preparation don't matter

  • @susanrainville7834
    @susanrainville7834 2 дня назад +21

    May they all have the Lord's protection ❤

  • @Glolasvegas
    @Glolasvegas 2 дня назад +20

    When they say if you stay, you will die, they know what they're talking about. Maybe they know something you don't know have you ever thought about that? Sending prayers stay safe.😮❤😢

  • @lisafoy1328
    @lisafoy1328 2 дня назад +12

    Do they realize that a cat 5 is really dangerous

  • @janetbrowning9089
    @janetbrowning9089 2 дня назад +15

    That is not an excuse to stay!! If these elderly neighbors can't get out because of mobility issues, then get them help to get out & leave yourself. This isn't heroism...this is just plain foolish!! I cannot remember a time in history, where someone in authority said, "either get out or die"...just know you are completely on your own, if you make such a stupid decision to stay!!

    • @BlueNumber1
      @BlueNumber1 2 дня назад

      He knows this it seems.

    • @caliopeknows844
      @caliopeknows844 2 дня назад

      Probably too many of them and not enough time. Mobility issues and what not.

    • @janetbrowning9089
      @janetbrowning9089 2 дня назад

      @@caliopeknows844 They all had plenty of time to leave...they are just staying for some stupid reason!! They have been saying for days now, get out!!

  • @matzrat5006
    @matzrat5006 2 дня назад +13

    Time to leave.

  • @barbn1211
    @barbn1211 2 дня назад +6

    I don't know. It's a very gallant gesture but wouldn't it be better to look after the elderly by getting them out now?

  • @johnqpublic5350
    @johnqpublic5350 2 дня назад +9

    FREE UBER FOR MILTON. FREE. Free to a free shelter with water and safety. NO EXCUSES.

  • @jessr5032
    @jessr5032 2 дня назад +5

    All I gotta say is stay safe, everyone. 🙏

  • @Ashuma1
    @Ashuma1 2 дня назад +3

    If everyone evacuates, then nobody has to stay back to save anybody. And responders dont have to risk their lives to save the" heroes" staying back to be heroic.

  • @saudigold50
    @saudigold50 2 дня назад +8

    *Very bad decision*

  • @Matt-i5u
    @Matt-i5u 2 дня назад +18

    Flood is more worst than typhoon 😮

  • @williamrmitchell1960
    @williamrmitchell1960 3 дня назад +33

    Bravo to you for thinking of your elderly neighbors! Please stay safe!

    • @lucibelle
      @lucibelle 2 дня назад +3

      Refusing to evacuate a mandatory evacuation zone is the opposite of staying safe.

    • @williamrmitchell1960
      @williamrmitchell1960 2 дня назад +2

      @@lucibelle pretty much. But in light of his emergency training and those mobility challenged elderly around him, someone needs to be ready for duty!

  • @Steventhrowsbirds
    @Steventhrowsbirds 2 дня назад +8

    Why wait to get them out after the emergency is in effect?

  • @lisafoy1328
    @lisafoy1328 2 дня назад +8

    You won't survive this kind of monster Storm and write ur name on arm's

  • @sandygraziano3548
    @sandygraziano3548 2 дня назад +13

    Praying for your safety!

    • @shiftymenno
      @shiftymenno 2 дня назад +1

      What is praying going to accomplish?😂

  • @andrewmcknight4504
    @andrewmcknight4504 3 дня назад +13

    He sound like a professional news anchor

  • @lynngalibois1937
    @lynngalibois1937 2 дня назад +8

    True heroes don't need war to shine.... be safe

  • @elliottadams6773
    @elliottadams6773 2 дня назад +5

    I don't know who he's gonna help ain't nobody gone be around 😂😂

  • @ivando5372
    @ivando5372 2 дня назад +4

    oh great. He is next to the water and all the houses are single story.

  • @TheLawWon
    @TheLawWon 2 дня назад +7

    This is the guy who loots the houses when everyone evacuates

  • @MystNLMusic
    @MystNLMusic 2 дня назад +8

    If you aren't free to stay in your home, are you actually free?

    • @janblackman6204
      @janblackman6204 2 дня назад +9

      You can stay in your home but you may not survive

    • @409Slots
      @409Slots 2 дня назад

      You can stay, but if during the storm you need police/fire/ems, they aren’t coming.

  • @fleadoggreen9062
    @fleadoggreen9062 2 дня назад

    I’d like to see a follow up
    And I’d Love to hear they all made it 😊

  • @aalexis3
    @aalexis3 2 дня назад +1

    Stupidity comes in many forms. Why would anyone live in that place is beyond me.

  • @RAM-db3ti
    @RAM-db3ti 2 дня назад +1

    Why hasn’t a department come a picked up those seniors and forced them out of the danger zones by some law. They are old and not thinking clearly. He is just at risk how does his family deal with his death too? 😢sad.

    • @marieross6231
      @marieross6231 2 дня назад +1

      Hey America.. live free...and die free too!😢

  • @littlevenus
    @littlevenus 2 дня назад +5

    He is a living saint

  • @banquetoftheleviathan1404
    @banquetoftheleviathan1404 2 дня назад +3

    I would be forming end-of-life plans right now if a hurricane was coming for my house. If my stuff goes, I go.

    • @AliciaLovesYAHUSHA
      @AliciaLovesYAHUSHA 2 дня назад +1

      Why would you want to die with/for what's replaceable?

  • @Maryb-j5k
    @Maryb-j5k 2 дня назад

    Please help them all to leave …

  • @Demokratur-ks8lq
    @Demokratur-ks8lq 2 дня назад

    hope he has a shelter

  • @zeddtbear
    @zeddtbear 2 дня назад

    Piles, steel , concrete, rebar goes a long way

  • @katiehettinger7857
    @katiehettinger7857 2 дня назад +4

    Call Speaker Mike Johnson's office demand he call back the House to aprove the requested FEMA. Why did Republicans vote down the aid bill after the refused to pass the budget?

  • @bobsfanjoy6569
    @bobsfanjoy6569 2 дня назад +1

    💖 🙏🙏🙏 🌹💯💖🌞 Sending 💖 and Caring! 🍁💯💖🙃

  • @lisafoy1328
    @lisafoy1328 2 дня назад +1

    Floridians scramble to the north and landed in Pittsburgh PA 💦🌊🌊🌊💪💪🇺🇲

  • @Jomabra4
    @Jomabra4 2 дня назад

    Don’t be a hero…

  • @TheRandomView
    @TheRandomView 2 дня назад

    Don't rebuild. Move. The worst is still to come.

  • @patriciaferrini-xt1ry
    @patriciaferrini-xt1ry День назад

    Be careful 3 hurricanes in Florida helene milton and Nadia...

  • @NormanLor
    @NormanLor 2 дня назад

    IT SURPRISES ME THAT EVEN A CANADIAN MISPRONOUNCES HELENE AS THIS IS A FRENCH NAME ALTHOUGH THIS IS A QUERK OF MINE.

    • @dianebaugher3919
      @dianebaugher3919 2 дня назад +3

      Quirk

    • @Marigold-m2
      @Marigold-m2 2 дня назад

      @NormanLor Can you pronounce every Indigenous name in Canada? They inhabited this land long before the French or the English. Where are your priorities?

  • @JackGeorge-s8e
    @JackGeorge-s8e 15 часов назад

    Jerrell Mount

  • @MichelleSHP
    @MichelleSHP 2 дня назад

    We really need to refer to men that live in Florida as a “Florida resident”. Just saying…..

  • @andrewfrazer8874
    @andrewfrazer8874 2 дня назад

    They no one's a island 🤔

  • @janblackman6204
    @janblackman6204 2 дня назад +2

    Gosh I hope he voted already

  • @johnsingleton5054
    @johnsingleton5054 2 дня назад

    Your choice but all animals and children better be to safety .

  • @MindOfInfinity_
    @MindOfInfinity_ 2 дня назад +1

    Where is the national Coast Guard the Navy the army the military do United States of America where is the authority that is supposed to be helping me all I see is community coming together

  • @MultiHondaa
    @MultiHondaa 2 дня назад

    Some just want clout.

  • @Pepe46873
    @Pepe46873 2 дня назад

    The looters all seem to survive hurricanes.

  • @sheilahill981
    @sheilahill981 2 дня назад

    WHO CARES BLAH BLAH BLAH HE DONT WANT NO ONE GETTING HIS STUFF HE’s bullcrap pin you Mr. Hero your state will break off in the ocean LOLOL blah blah blah!!!

  • @Matt-i5u
    @Matt-i5u 2 дня назад +2

    USELESS MANDATORY EVAC😂

    • @lucibelle
      @lucibelle 2 дня назад +2

      I’ve lived in Florida. You have no idea what you’re talking about so maybe just stop talking.

    • @ill.lbwest2464
      @ill.lbwest2464 2 дня назад

      Yeah dude you should stop talking.