Still works to deal with the effects from Hurricane Helene….
They are faced with a second storm, Milton, brewing in the Gulf of Mexioc expected to head over Florida…..
Florida is facing the threat of another major hurricane making landfall in the state, prompting state emergency officials to prepare for the evacuation of potentially more than 6 million residents as the state still recovers from its last direct hit.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday told reporters at the Florida Emergency Operations Center the state is now racing to clean up debris left by Hurricane Helene, which hit the state just 10 days ago. Tropical Storm Milton is expected to make landfall somewhere along the state’s western coast by midweek as a hurricane, the National Weather Service forecasted, bringing the threat of deadly coastal flooding, high winds, and torrential rainfall.
Milton is expected to strengthen into a hurricane before landfall, and the storm could bring coastal flooding that may leave Tampa Bay under 10 feet of water. Milton has the potential of pushing even more Gulf water onto the coast than Helene, which hit a rural stretch of the state’s Big Bend region in the north. Despite Helene making landfall hundreds of miles away, communities along the gulf coast on Florida’s peninsula were wrecked by significant flooding.
Milton’s flooding, however, will directly hit a much more heavily-populated part of the state as the storm moves east along Interstate 4 toward the Atlantic Ocean.
DeSantis said a direct hit on Tampa Bay would be the most challenging scenario for the state.
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A complication for Florida’s storm recovery is the number of available contracted debris removal teams if other states were hit by the storm. Many debris removal teams left Florida for North Carolina after Helene unleashed utter destruction there, and Guthrie said those that left while still under contract with the state could be banned from future work. State crews that were sent to North Carolina to assist with recovery efforts there have also been called back to the state ahead of Milton….
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These two storms will have heavily effected Red state’s that Trump needs……
Not all these affected people are gonna show up to vote…..
Hurricane Milton Strengthens To Category 5, Florida Orders Evacuations
Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane Monday in the Gulf of Mexico on a path toward Florida, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay, leading to evacuation orders and long gas lines, and lending more urgency to the cleanup from Hurricane Helene, which swamped the same stretch of coastline less than two weeks ago.
A hurricane warning was issued for parts of Mexico’s Yucatan state, which expected to get sideswiped, and much of Florida’s west coast was under hurricane and storm surge watches. Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, which often floods during intense storms, was also under a hurricane watch….
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Was planning to be in Gainesville, FL, this weekend. That’s out now.
Smart……..
Florida gets several beat downs
Someone up there doesn’t like DeSantis