Conditions deteriorate in Sarasota before Milton's landfall

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Storm chaser Connor McCrorey reported live from Sarasota, Florida, on the evening of Oct. 9, highlighting dangerous conditions beginning as Milton approached the coast

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00:00Let's go to Sarasota because about 40 miles off to the west-southwest we find Milton and it is in

00:07Sarasota we find storm chaser Connor McCrory and Connor. What are the conditions right now?

00:14Well, it's gotten pretty interesting here just the last half hour in fact, I would like to show you a video

00:20Some videos that I shot just about 20-30 minutes ago that really go to show that earlier

00:26Very recently the damage around here in Sarasota not that significant

00:31There were some fear, you know minor tree damage a few signs and some flimsier things getting getting talked about

00:38But ever since I taught that stuff as I was preparing to meet you here

00:50I would say and

00:52We've even had I believe some mezzo board coming so things will be calm calm calm

00:57And then all of a sudden a really intense wind gust comes through and you can actually see it

01:01You're spinning off into the water. You can actually see what I'm talking about right back there

01:06These palm trees have been swaying we've been bombarded by debris here

01:10It's just sitting in the plot, but it's it's a lot more intense than it was before. That's for sure. No doubt about it

01:17again, thanks

01:18Connor thanks for your report in Sarasota, Florida here

01:22I do want to begin with the wind map here a couple of reasons for that. We were just talking with Ali Reed

01:26She's down in Fort Myers Beach. Keep in mind that Beach

01:30Faces the south. That's why she's starting to get that increased storm surge because of the southerly wind

01:36I want to point this out

01:37This is important as bad as the storm surge is now keep in mind that in most locations

01:43Especially north of Captiva Island the wind direction is parallel to the coast

01:47So the storm worst of the storm surge it has not arrived yet

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