Milton, one of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record, is threatening a stretch of Florida’s densely populated west coast still reeling from Helene.
| An expanding Hurricane Milton churned towards Florida’s battered Gulf Coast on Tuesday , where more than 1 million people were ordered to evacuate a day before the monster storm is forecast to slam the Tampa Bay area.
Members of the Florida Army National Guard stage on a beach as they prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Milton, in Bradenton Beach, Florida.Dump trucks have been working 24 hours a day to remove mounds of debris left by Helene for fear Milton could turn them into dangerous projectiles, Governor Ron DeSantis said. Some 5000 National Guard members have been deployed, with another 3000 on hand for the storm’s aftermath.
They plan to stay with friends who have a home on high ground but will keep an eye on the storm’s path and may head farther north. “This storm is so strong, big, it’s unreal,” he said. “We’re in survival mode.” Public service workers fill sandbags to distribute to residents to help prevent flooding, as Hurricane Milton prepares to strike Florida.Motorists waited to fill their tanks in lines snaking around petrol stations, only to find that some were out of fuel. By early on Tuesday, bumper-to-bumper traffic choked roads leading out of Tampa.
State police are providing escorts to fuel trucks that are headed out to replenish gas stations, Governor DeSantis said.Fed by warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Milton became the third-fastest intensifying storm on record in the Atlantic, as it surged from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane – the most powerful – in less than 24 hours.
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