Florida prepares for 'catastrophic impact' of Hurricane Milton | BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2024
- Hurricane Milton is going to be "deadly and catastrophic", officials are warning, as millions leave Florida ahead of the storm's arrival
Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, has been speaking in what will be his last briefing before Hurricane Milton makes landfall late on Wednesday night.
“51 counties remain under a state of emergency but authorities are "prepared and we will respond”, he said.
He adds "there is still hope" Milton could weaken further before it reaches Florida after it was downgraded to a category four storm earlier by the National Hurricane Center.
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I was lucky enough to be in the USA and Florida for the first time in my life this year. I loved the time I spent there and am deeply saddened by what is about to happen to this beautiful state. I hope everyone is safe and going to be OK.
it sucks as a state you should stay at home and help save the climate do not come again
😮😮My heart goes out to all those in its path, to all those helping with the preparations and especially, to all those who will be called in after the the storm has passed to help with the aftermath. My heart aches for you all 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Bro what, 12 to 15 feet of storm surge! LEAVE!
There are a lot of stupid people walking this earth. Those are the people that make up 95+% of fatalities. If you’re in a low lying area & the surge is that big you’ll drown inside your house. After Katrina in NOLA they found hundreds of people in their attics that tried to cut a hole through their roof to get out and couldn’t.
Well so far I’ve seen 2 tornadoes and the storm hasn’t even made the coast yet . We are about to take a beating a bad 1 . Pray for us
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Three tornadoes now…
Stay safe 🙏🏻
Please don't put first responders at risk because of your stupid decision NOT to leave if you had the chance, are not disabled, and just think that this is all a joke.
To a curtain hour, first responders, State Troopers, etcetera refuse to get a stupid idiot.
Trouble is this is the worst one,its gotta be so scary,the damage it will cause,is gona be terrible,just hope everyone has got safe.
It's going to be horrendous, I hope people were able to get fuel and transport to evacuate. No property is worth a life ❤
Many, many people may not be "choosing" to stay, but feel they have no choice BUT to stay. They may not have vehicles, can't afford transit out of the area, know no one outside the area to stay with, have no money for motels, can't get into overcrowded shelters, can't bring their pets, etc, etc. After the storm, i hope there is an in-depth report on the infrastructure used to help the millions of low income persons living in the impact area who needed to relocate for the duration of the storm. The stats that DeSantis states are certainly impressive, but was it enough to move EVERYONE? I surely hope all of the low income, elderly, and disabled citizens of Florida reach safety.
There's buses and free Uber all over the place. If you want out, you can get out. They have shelters for 200k people, and about 3k currently use them.
Yes, we must not say everyone who is staying is doing it because they are careless about their life. I read a comment yesterday where a family had to stay because a live in family member is bedbound due to illness. They are stocked up and took all other precautions that they could, however they do not have the means to leave.
This is why you have an emergency fund if you make enough to do so. You need at least 3000 in an account if you are able to. Even 300 gets you a hotel for a few days.
This 1000%. Every case is different, and could be a great program in the future to understand the reason why everyone chooses to leave or stay from a public health perspective to better improve those outcomes in the future.
I’d rather hop on a free Uber or bus and stay in a tent on the street than get killed in a storm
When I was looking at it online it shows that it dropped from 5 to 4 and it drops to 3 just before it reaches land . So maybe it won’t be as bad as we all think
Cat 3 is still devastating
5 and 4 are more than enough to do untold damages, and 3 still meets the criteria. It's only a specific metric of classification and will still do more than enough damage to cripple affected peoples and infrastructures.
Here is a few things. With the path it has now, it will not subside in the same way as it originally would. It passes over warmer water now. And even if it becomes Cat 3, that in itself presents other issues. The surge will be the same more or less, but what is the problem with the Cat 3, is that it will probably be wider than a Cat 4, and thus create a greater area with surge.
It will be bad, no matter what. But there's a real chance that it will be Cat 4 on impact.
I said the same thing
It never is as bad as ten anticipate but it makes for great fear mongering and media coverage. i'm so sick of the sensationalism
PRAYING FOR ALL AFFECTED BY THIS HURRICANE 🙏🙏🙏🙏
They don't need prayers to a nonexistent God, they need $!
Love and thoughts to our American cousins across the pond. Stay strong Florida. Love from England x
God bless everyone and I am praying for you all, stay strong Florida. ❤
Prayers from Yorkshire in England ❤
don,t be silly keep your fairy in the sky to yourself along with all the other idiot ideas
It’s the BIG ONE. It’s Hurricane Milton. This could be paradise lost for Florida! 😮
Yet they could survive to Paradise Regained.
@@frederickjones532Indeed! The Milton knowledge is good with you! 👍🤣
With all the book burnings under Governor Ron DeSantis and the attacks on civil liberties and personal freedoms, Florida is already LOST.
And the reason why Florida had to get all this help from these other states is because this stupid son of a b**** send everybody in Florida up to North Carolina because he wanted to score political points and now there's no one down here to handle Florida's crisis.
Do you see how the son of a b**** is spin s***.
Prayers for Florida.
If there were a God, there' d be no hurricanes!
@@michaelellringer5600you don’t know that
There is no greater dichotomy in this world than my fellow Americans in Florida, who by and large are going to be uninsured when the storm destroys their homes as corporate greed runs rampant among a world forever changed by a warming climate. Insurance companies are still denying claims for Hurricane Ian, and there is no justice for those who will lose everything to storm surge which is not covered under their policies. Florida exists as a resort now, where the wealthy leave by private jet when convenient and return when the serving class have rebuilt their roads, clinics, hospitals and restaurants for them.
They are the first ones to brag they don’t pay a state income tax (most moved there just for that fact) yet have their hands out for federal help and rich blue state help even before a storm.
My love and prayers are with you. Please spare a thought for defenceless animals. God Bless
Desatis becomes the governer of atlantis!
Boy that's brilliantly funny.... Ha Hah!
I don't like him either, but that's a really crappy joke to make with 1000s of peoples lives and livelihoods in the balance.
I guess we have the full measure of your character and intellect now don't we?
I hope you feel nice and safe and smug wherever you live while Floridians will be getting smashed.
Cheers! You're a quality human being mate! You''re a real peach.
@@reganmorben9248 ...
@@reganmorben9248
Black humour gets some of us through the worst. Each to their own.
He was one of the Senators that recently voted against FEMA receiving more funding and he refused federal government funding to help shore up Florida's infrastructure. So, yeah, he's helped make Florida into another "Atlantis" and causing a lot of people needless suffering, AGAIN.
Oh God
Who is taking care of the animals? 😢
Yes please help the animals get them out of their
Вас слышит Господь Бог .
Prayers and thoughts are with them all.
Prayers sent
@@tinadaugherty9073 To whom? A God that creates hurricanes?
@@michaelellringer5600 It's a gesture of hope, why on God's green earth are you bringing your skepticism here of all damn places.
I'm not even religious, and I "pray" for their safety.
@@fahrenheit2101”thoughts and prayers” is akin to an insult. A backhanded slap.
I just want to say now that there are a lot of people that are forced to stay and don't have a choice to evacuate there are certain groups that went ahead of everybody. Pray for the people that were forced to stay and did not choose to stay.
Very true 😢
The poorest and least fortunate are always the least able to leave
@@Ghost-Dna it's shocking how money is still the biggest factor in fairness and survival 😢
This is going to be very bad....
Let us help the peoples affected, nothing to worry,my prayers for the peoples ✋
I'm in the St Pete area it's getting bad by the minute
I hope you're going to be okay.
Prayers for all in Florida especially my family in Naples! 🙏🏻❤️
Thanks 🙏
Prayers
Stop the praying, it never does any good, praying to a God that creates hurricanes?
I hope the lady that’s staying with her family stay safe very risky
Get your Sharpies out if you didn't leave.
Prey for all of you 🤲
To whom? A sadistic God that creates hurricanes?
Please stop war we want peace in the world.
Just think of all the deadly projectiles flying around with all the trash from the last floods still outside. Houses and condos that may have been just flooded will have broken glass.
I'm watching these people say they are going to stay and thinking to myself. After this, they might not be here to talk to us like this. Sad... You should just leave. WHY DO YOU want to GAMBLE with your life. So sad
Weather manipulation!
PRAY FOR FLORIDA 🙏
Pray to A Sadistic God that creates hurricanes?
I remember being a teenager when hurricane Andrew hit the US.
Major news coverage like this
Andrew was bad. I was 11. I was on vacation with my parents in Miami when it hit. Can't remember much about it other than it was tense and scary. Our hotel was used as a shelter and one of the waitresses, fed all the kids so much ice cream that the parents had to tell her to stop, as a couple of kids had become sick from overeating ice cream lol.
@@AB-80X I was 14 yrs old.
Can't remember if it was 90' or 91'...I remember it was on every channel when I got home from buddy's place that day
@@Ronn-p3r
'92. It was a big deal.
@@AB-80X thanks...wasn't sure which year it was
My thoughts are with our cousins in Florida, in anticipation of the damage this storm will cause.
Brit here getting ready to weather the storm at Walt Disney World. Very impressed with the organization and communication. The governor is also very impressive.
This is how people were during Hurricane Katrina. Only a few people left with me and the rest regretted it.
Milton’s Paradise Lost
Prays 🙏🏼🙏🏿🙏🏼 for the people pets and Gators 🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊
Go to sleep clown PRAY for the ppls
With God, all things are possible. Prayers change things 🙏 ❤
And its a very sadistic God that creates hurricanes!
Deny climate change at your opwn peril
@janejohndoe348 Geoengineering. Weather warfare.
It's hurricane season some seasons are worse then others, it's been that way.for ever
The US has over 100 weather engineering patents, since 1891. Deny geoengineering at your own peril, currently major red voting states are crippled. Believe what you want. Apple refuses to open Trump's assassin's 6 phones. This is OUR reality.
@@bigtone7824 and they have the tech now to enhance and steer hurricanes.
yep, never a hurricane at all before climate change, not a one
The predictions seem to be catastrophic. So many Florida’s towns have been built at sea level and they will be entirely destroyed 😬
God bless the American people with these terrible storms,,,must do what government says move quickly to safety.
They have organized ambulances because they know many people are going to die👌👌👌👌 RIP to many who going to loose there lives in this heavy storm ⛈️
Do hurricanes have the right to defend themselves? Are you allowed to call it a genocide?
You have issues.
@@SteelersFan43 Yeah, it's called US-backed genocide in Gaza.
hahaahahahaha so silly
how the fuck did you somehow make this dangerous weather event about a completely different conflict. fuck you.
The US can respond reflexively to thie storm, but not mentally. They still cannot acknowledge the climate crisis.
because nobody even understands the climate crisis, even the supporters of it.
The layman's reason for believing it is simply "the last couple years have had some kinda extreme weather". That's not even climate-relevant.
I trust in the science, but I've not really looked into it myself, and I'm not quite confident enough to see a few events and pull a Willem Dafoe:
"You know, I'm something of a scientist myself"
Our future PRESIDENT OF USA 🇺🇸…❤🎉❤🎉❤
Why didn't they send hundreds of school busses to help people evacuate ??
Fuel ??
It's a category 5 storm. Now i think may the lord protect everyone godbless from the uk 🙏🙏
She has four kids. FOUR kids and she's willing not to only risk her life but to risk their lives too. What an irresponsible parent.
I really hope Summerna isn’t in exact Tampa and they said that for simplicity sake, because Tampa is a mandatory evacuation area with potentially 10 feet of storm surge.
Actually hurricane Andrew was the worst to hit Florida in the past century.
So sorry,Stay safe ..Prayers your way...
We are drilling the planet. for profit!
I thought it was to impressed the stupid with how much we
Have and how little we care with our education about the young.
It's entropy trump.
Well really for survival actually, but you can oversimplify everything to meet you political agenda if you like, people like me will point out your lack of intelligence every time.
@@reganmorben9248ironic.
I pray for all🙏
I'm confused by their messaging - they confidently state it will be the "worst in a hundred years", but it will probably be "only" a low category 4 or high category 3 by landfall, but Katrina was a 5 - so how could this one be worse than Katrina? I'm from UK so obviously I'm by no means an expert, but I genuinely don't understand the analysis?
most of florida is near sea level, and the stor surge will be up to 15 feet
@@KieranHolroyd Isn't Louisiana at sea level? Isn't that why they have all the levees?
Ty ❤@@KieranHolroyd
Katrina was a CAT 5 that when it made landfall was a CAT 3. Katrina was even more dangerous cause the levies that held back the water failed😔…Milton is a CAT5 and they say it might go down to CAT 3 might but it looks like it will make landfall at as a CAT 4 after suffering from a previous cat3 like 2 weeks ago…
Katrina was a cat 5 but became a cat 3 by the time it hit the US
The day after tomorrow
Please pray for Florida
Praying 🙏🙏🙏. Keep safe everyone 🙏
Все, будет хорошо 🙏
Pray to whom, or what, exactly? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? He won’t be able to help here. 🍝
But not for DeSantis or tRump, oh & definitely not for Matt Gaetz
Yes.
'Praying' makes all the difference, doesn't it.
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165MPH winds er no thanks
Should have reminded that Tampa lady about roads being closed and that evacuation would be difficult now.
oh look its one of the "Climate change isn't real" politicians
It's funny that it is DeSantis who wants to ban the term climate change.
this happen many year is not new
@@mariabillings9618 Tampa hasn't been hit since the 1920s btw
You can’t even say climate change in Florida government circles
@@mariabillings9618 You are not quite familiar with rate of incident messurements are ya or avrages of temperature messurements? At this point i do get that theres very little trust in goverment in the US for good reason and its hard to figure out whats up and down but seriously that there just aint it...the numbers one finds when one digs do not lie, even when stuff like the honga tonga volcanic eruption is accounted for avrage temperature is rising and fast.
How do the rescue crews embedded in the areas stay safe while the storm is passing?
God bless you florida 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
You'd believe in a Sadistic God that creates hurricanes?
christ, imagine being led by DeSantis. The man who hung up when the federal government offered services in the last week to try and help. What a loser.
Are you British or America? If British 🤫
@@Mia-vm6pl Ah yes, the two nationalities. British and American.
That's a LIE+. He's a stellar emergency situation Governor. Shame on you for repeating MSM propaganda at a time like this.
Listen to his press conference today,, you might learn something about real leadership.
FOLKS BEWARE OF TEOLLS WHO DON'T LIVE IN FLORIDA OR ANYWHERE NEAR THESE DISASTERS THEY ARE THE LOWEST OF THE LOW.
LISTEN TO FLORIDIANS.
The biggest catastrophe for Florida was electing Ron DeSantis Governor.
He's not worried about the residents, he's more worried about a population loss for Florida as many may be leaving FL for good!
From Ireland 🇮🇪 with love and blessings.
May God keep all those affected safe.
To all the first responders please take care of yourselves and look after and out for each other.
This is not normal!
Used the word HOPE !!! look it up...❤
Imagine having Ron DeSantis watching your back during a catastrophe..... It's like having Dr. Mengala being your brain surgeon.
He’s a governor he’s doing the best he can to help.
Says the person who calls people zionists , grow fuck up 😂
Considering he seems to have dealt with every natural disaster without an issue to this day, I'd say most of Florida have a huge amount of confidence in him.
One of the best and most competent governors in America, but let me guess, you're one of the people from the other side that enjoys inflation, uncontrolled migration, and war. Most people don't.
EDIT: Just to add insult to your self inflicted injury, DeSantis won in by less than 1% in 2018 and won by 20% in 2022, people like him. Sincerely, a 25 year old former democrat in NYC.
Says the idiot who calls people zionists. Act your age, your not 18 year old student 😅
This is exactly how most apocalyptic movies started. Please bless those people down there❤
Probably will not be as bad as predicted.MSM love to hype it up.already downgraded to cat 3
It's the florida governor talking. Backed by the police and the military. But sure. You say its the MSM. 🤦♀️
Well said
Stay safe ❤️❤️
Evacuate please
I hope Mar o Lago is just a smear of wood and debris after this?.
At times like this you're here obsessing over Trump ?!
What a miserable repugnant existence.
@nosemellon
Foxtrot Alpha Golf Golf Oscar Tango
You are A H_ _ _
Mate... C'mon... seriously? I'm no fan of trump but this is a weird comment
Your a ass hat .
My thoughts are with them and I hope they can see it out,I wish there was something I could do😢
There are now 12 tornadoes on the ground
Is this what they are saying about do not sleep on the 9th of October 2024? Is this as strong as Haiyan that hit Philippines in 2013 ??
Thought he was scofield for a second
From years of research and predictive analytics this storm will permanently wipe out parts of Florida off the map
God be with us Tampa folks who stay in. We will thrive again! Hopefully there will be a tomorrow for us 🫡
Many have chosen not to evacuate.
Bruce Willis can be stopped.
Less taxes = less disaster preparations.
More climate change denial = more climate change disasters.
and they will vote repub again. Prayers won't help.
How do people evacuate if they don't have the financial sources to do so?
If you live in hurricane country near the coast you better have a large evacuation fund or move. Destroyed houses should not be rebuilt, the coastal land should be wildlife refuge.
God bless ❤ from England 🏴
By not answering federal government calls and down voting federal help 😂
We start in Florida which is approx 4200 miles from where The British Broadcasting company is based.
Why ??
Politics a side looking at the governor my 30 years of mass cass and ICS experience is telling me- That's an incident commander that understands his role 100% Florida is lucky to have a captain like that at the helm
Ron DeSantis seems like a great governor!
Kudos to the local government - they really do whatever they can to save as many people as possible. It's not like sitting, doing nothing and praying that everything will be fine.
On the other hand, if such hurricanes will be one after another for a prolonged period of time, that Florida will become a ghost state in a near future.
Florida going blue fr! 🌊
😂
💯👍🇺🇸💙
Not a chance troll. We've seen NY and CA you can have your shitty states. Blue has no clue!
They just need copies of keys
Thank you, Governor DeSantis. In 30 years, I have never seen a hurricane handled so well. Its absolutely shameful those who tried to stand in your way. When uncollected debre damages my home i know to sue the waste management for neglected duties.
I think they were overloaded with massive amount of debris. I think Florida has asked for help from other states to help with debris removal.
😢😢 Stop sending billions to Netanyahu!!!
No solo a netanyahu Miguel, se la estan dando a Ukrania que no va a gnar nunca
@@NoTeEntiendoBro así es!!! Pero si siguen poniendo billones de Dólares para seguir el G3no Cidio en Palestina, Lebanon y Países circundantes, la economía de millones de Usonians se veran en la banca rota al estilo de Argentina ( ahora conocida como Hambrentina).
Now that’s a president ❤
I have been praying for Jesus to avert the hurricane. Even the winds and waves obey him. ❤
Well done, governor
Oh look we are sending 1 million gallons of gas to help but what caused this storm oh burning 1 million gallons of gas gee I am a really smart guy
Whose glad the nuclear codes aren't being kept in a garage in Florida right now
Are they putting all the power company trucks in one yard? Would you not spread them around the state. If the storm changes path it will get the whole lot.