Milton has rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane as Florida gears up for what could be its biggest evacuation in seven years.
The major hurricane is moving over the Gulf of Mexico and is headed toward population centers including Tampa and Orlando.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday that Milton has maximum sustained winds of 150 mph and that dangerous storm surge is possible in Florida.
Milton could make landfall Wednesday in the Tampa Bay area and remain a hurricane as it moves across central Florida to the Atlantic Ocean.
The major hurricane is moving over the Gulf of Mexico and is headed toward population centers including Tampa and Orlando.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday that Milton has maximum sustained winds of 150 mph and that dangerous storm surge is possible in Florida.
Milton could make landfall Wednesday in the Tampa Bay area and remain a hurricane as it moves across central Florida to the Atlantic Ocean.
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00:00It's really frustrating that the last hurricane came, the storm, and they've
00:09screwed around and haven't picked the debris up and now they're scrambling to
00:12get it picked up and if this one does hit it's going to be flying missiles.
00:16Stuff's going to be floating, flying in the air. It's just a little scary to
00:20protect your house because it's not just your house, it's all the houses have
00:24debris piled up as high as you can see.
00:30It's, you know, too early to decide to evacuate because you could go to the
00:40wrong place and have to re-evacuate or be in the way of the storm.
00:44You're out. Yeah, I mean if it comes anywhere close to eight to twelve feet, that's going to be on the second floor.
00:48We are very scared from the last storm. Our house was under four to five feet of
00:54water. We lost all our cars, all our furniture. The first floor was completely
00:59destroyed. Needs repairs, the pool, the dock, all of that stuff. I am still really
01:03scared and have nightmares from the last storm so I really think we're going to
01:07evacuate.
01:11I keep talking to my older neighbors and they keep saying that they have never seen anything like this in 30 years, 40 years, 50 years.
01:20This is the oddest weather predicament that there has ever been so I can't
01:25believe that there's already another one.