Coastal Floridian warns others to 'get out' as Hurricane Milton closes in: 'We have no idea' what's coming

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Hurricane-battered Florida braces for yet different circular of tempest surge and damaging winds arsenic perchance catastrophic Hurricane Milton barrels toward the state's westbound coast.

Treasure Island sits straight successful the storm's projected path, putting residents similar Chuck Fuller connected precocious alert aft already facing the wrath of Hurricane Helene.

Fuller, speaking to Fox News aboriginal Tuesday, said helium plans to evacuate up of the storm's landfall, and he's urging others to "get out" arsenic well.

"There's thing overmuch that we tin do… We've ne'er seen a tempest of this magnitude. They said it's astir apt been implicit 100 years," helium told "Fox & Friends First" co-host Carley Shimkus. 

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Chuck Fulller and Hurricane Milton split

Treasure Island nonmigratory Chuck Fuller urged different coastal Floridians to get retired of the mode of the perchance catastrophic Hurricane Milton. (Fox News)

"One of the astir unspeakable reasons [for] the nonaccomplishment of lives is drowning," helium continued, speaking of the tempest surge threat. "So conscionable delight get retired and beryllium safe."

Residents of the Sunshine State are making their mode either inland toward shelters oregon safer areas successful different states, packing interstate highways arsenic they heed warnings to flee.

Fuller's area, already battered by Hurricane Helene precocious past month, present grapples with destruction, sewage successful the streets and the mounting unit to bash what they tin to ward disconnected the damage Milton could cause.

"I person a informing for those that mightiness beryllium seeing this that are inactive successful the obstruction islands. We've go precise complacent due to the fact that implicit the years, the storms person travel successful and [there was] not overmuch damage, possibly a small water. We've ne'er had immoderate h2o successful our location but possibly immoderate upwind damage. The archetypal twelvemonth we sandbagged, we moved the cars, thing happened and past truthful connected and truthful on, truthful you go complacent," helium said.

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Hurricane Milton projected path

Hurricane Milton's projected way indicates it volition apt interaction astir of the Florida peninsula.

"But I tin archer you, heed the proposal of the officials and get retired because, we person nary thought [what's coming]."

Preparing for Millton has progressive boarding up homes, gathering barricades utilizing sandbags and doing "a batch of praying," Fuller said, adding that, after Helene, the country can't spend to "take immoderate chances."

Milton jumped to a class 5 connected Monday earlier dialing backmost to a class 4 tempest hours later. The tempest is expected to marque landfall precocious Wednesday.

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Taylor Penley is an subordinate exertion with Fox News.

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