Hurricane Milton approaches US, thousands evacuate coastal cities in Florida

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Residents living in major cities in Florida in the United States including St Petersburg, Tampa and Orlando are evacuating as Hurricane Milton approaches. Many have boarded up windows and secured their homes in anticipation of the Category 5 storm.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A powerful hurricane to reach the coast of Florida as we get into the late evening hours

00:19tomorrow night or the early morning hours on Thursday.

00:23Still expecting Milton to be a powerful major hurricane as it approaches the coast of Florida,

00:28bringing widespread impacts from both wind and storm surge.

00:32I can't stress enough that this is not an if event, it's a when event, and we are into

00:38the final hours.

00:41So some of us may have had it in the back of our minds that it's going to turn, it's

00:44going to miss us.

00:46We're going to get hit, whether it's a direct hit or it moves slightly, there's just no

00:52ifs or buts about it.

00:54We're going to get hit and it's going to be hard.

00:56We were ordered to evacuate and if anybody knows anything about Florida, when you don't

01:01evacuate when you're ordered to, you can pretty much die.

01:08They've had a lot of people here stay at their homes and they end up drowning and it's just

01:13not worth it.

01:15The house can be replaced, the stuff can be replaced, so it's just better to get out of

01:20town.

01:21We're going to evacuate tomorrow.

01:22We have a place to go.

01:24It's in a no flood zone so we'll be okay, as long as the house can stand up to the winds

01:32of course.

01:33But we shouldn't get flooded out.

01:34If you can leave, leave, please, just go, find a shelter, a neighbor, somebody.

01:45And then the mayor said if you don't leave you're going to die, it's scary.

01:50Hopefully I come home, my house is still here, my car is still here, but it is what it is.

01:57Just a week ago, one of the houses got flooded, three and a half feet, and now we're just

02:03expecting the worst, but as long as we have God in our hearts and we have the strength,

02:10I think that's what matters.

02:12We have our family, we have God, and that's all we need to make it no matter where.

02:20We have nine African penguins and they are on our first floor in their home, but we do

02:29have a temporary home built for them and they moved up to the second floor, well above any

02:33type of tidal surge that might affect the building.

02:36And then we have several animals around the building that are on the ground floor that

02:41have all moved to second floor locations and safe locations that we planned for things

02:46like this so they have nice homes, even though they may be a little temporary.

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