Florida residents prepare for round two of back-to-back hurricanes after ‘45 years of good luck’

As Hurricane Milton barrels toward the west seashore of Florida, residents successful Siesta Key are dealing with back-to-back storms aft 45 years of "good luck."

On Wednesday afternoon, Milton was a Category 3 tempest and was expected to marque landfall precocious Wednesday nighttime oregon aboriginal Thursday greeting adjacent Tampa, Florida.

Hurricane Helene battered the country precocious past month, and galore residents were opening to prime up the remaining pieces of their lives erstwhile Milton formed successful the Gulf of Mexico.

FOX 13 successful Tampa spoke with Fred Schuh, who, on with his wife, built a location connected Siesta Key, wherever they raised their kids and created a beingness of memories.

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Fred Schuh of Siesta Key, Fla., is getting acceptable for a 2nd hurricane successful 2 weeks arsenic Milton aims for the westbound seashore of Florida. (FOX 13 successful Tampa)

Schuh’s location was astir destroyed during Helene, and images changeable by the presumption showed the h2o level extracurricular the location had reached astir a 3rd of the mode up the beforehand door, conscionable beneath the doorway knob.

A enactment on the perimeter of the location astir knee-high near a reminder of however precocious the h2o level was inside.

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A h2o enactment astir the perimeter of the wrong of Fred Schuh's Siesta Key, Florida, location shows however precocious the surge reached during Hurricane Helene. (FOX 13 successful Tampa)

While a dumpster sits successful the beforehand gait of Schuh’s location for destroyed possessions and memories, a caller tempest is approaching and expected to origin adjacent much damage.

With truthful galore unknowns, Schuh is not definite what volition hap to his location during Hurricane Milton. A histrion could autumn connected his house, oregon helium could get 5-6 feet of h2o inside.

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The h2o roseate truthful precocious during Hurricane Helene successful precocious September it reached astir a 3rd of the mode up Fred Schuh's beforehand door. (FOX 13 successful Tampa)

"We lone had 3 the archetypal time, but probably, I expect due to the fact that of this surge successful the mode it’s coming successful to beryllium higher," helium told the station.

As Fred grabbed a fewer of his belongings and secured the location for circular two, helium besides enactment the process of recovering from the first circular connected hold.

"What are you going to do? It’s Mother Nature," helium said. "We had 45-plus years of bully luck. I ne'er would person thought it would spell distant successful 2 weeks aft each that time. But that’s conscionable the mode it goes."

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Fred Schuh of Siesta Key, Florida, is getting acceptable for a 2nd hurricane successful 2 weeks arsenic Milton approaches the westbound seashore of Florida. (FOX 13 successful Tampa)

Venice Police Chief Charlie Thorpe warned residents successful his assemblage southbound of Sarasota to hole now.

"This is going to beryllium a significant, important storm," the main said. "I’ve told radical galore times successful galore meetings. We were deed by Ian, not hammered. This volition beryllium a hammer, I consciousness like, successful this circumstance."

Thorpe told FOX 13 helium worries immoderate radical whitethorn not instrumentality the informing seriously, similar erstwhile Helene deed the country 2 weeks agone and officers were called to rescue radical who did not evacuate.

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"I'm truly acrophobic that immoderate radical that are successful mobile location parks that whitethorn person felt like, ‘Hey, we got done Ian,’ are not going to beryllium the aforesaid successful my mind, successful this case, and particularly adjacent to the shoreline."