Hurricane chaser in Florida says Milton prompted 'race' for residents to evacuate

Storm chaser Mike Boylan of Mike's Weather Page has been chasing utmost upwind since 2020, traveling to six antithetic states.

His latest chase, Hurricane Milton, hits adjacent to his bosom arsenic helium is simply a Florida native.

Boylan told Fox News Digital successful an on-camera interview, "To me, it’s sad. You get benignant of numb to the thought of surviving present that it can't happen. And Helene was a rude wake-up call. Maybe that truly got radical fired up successful a weird way."

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He is presently successful the Tampa Bay region, successful Oldsmar, and says Hurricane Helene precocious devastated the country and Milton whitethorn beryllium worse.

Mike Boylan of Mike's Weather Page has traveled to six antithetic states tracking storms. (Fox News Digital)

"I’ve got a debris heap down maine conscionable littered with debris for miles and miles and miles. And it's the aforesaid country up and down to each of the Tampa Bay region. This is 1 communicative of many, of course, that's unfolding. And it's conscionable it's bittersweet for these folks, they mislaid everything. Now dealing with perchance a higher storm surge," helium said.

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On Monday, Hurricane Milton strengthened from a Category 1 hurricane to a Category 5 hurricane with winds predicted to scope 180 mph, FOX Weather reported.

The National Hurricane Center warns that Milton poses an "extremely superior threat" to Florida with life-threatening impacts.

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Boylan said he's noticing an summation successful postulation connected roads arsenic radical unreserved to evacuate the Sunshine State.

"I consciousness a small panic, a race. Because the storms volition beryllium present time night. A batch of a batch of plywood and trucks. A batch of radical [are] inactive evacuating, boarding up, [a] acquainted show surviving successful Florida," said Boylan.

Boylan told Fox News Digital that residents should perceive to officials and permission zones wherever evacuations person been mandated. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

He said residents should perceive to officials and permission zones wherever evacuations person been mandated.

"Being a Floridian, Floridians are stubborn, immoderate of us. Seeing present I was conscionable up determination for Helene and seeing crushed zero up there, what we got present with a tempest 100 miles away, the surge successful our area, tens of thousands of homes are flooded right present successful our Tampa Bay region."

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"Now, you adhd to that, you instrumentality it seriously. I mean, you can't run. Most hurricane deaths are h2o related. And present we've got a flood hazard that's inland with this rainfall. And past we got a surge it," said Boylan.

Boylan traveled to Texas to screen Hurricane Beryl (pictured here) and said it was the 2nd of the worst hurricanes helium has ever tracked. (Mike's Weather Page)

Boylan said helium feels Milton "in the air," sharing that the heat is simply a motion that helium experienced during Hurricane Ian successful 2022 and successful different storms.

He said the worst Hurricane helium has tracked was Ian, with Beryl in Texas being the second-worst arsenic a Category 1 storm.

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"Now that it's my turf, it's different. When I tempest pursuit successful Louisiana, there's a one-way road, and it’s successful and out. I don't cognize wherever the heck I'm going. This is my turf. So, I've lived for this moment," said Boylan.