Hurricane Milton: President Biden says ‘Evacuating before Milton hits a matter of life and death’

And to adhd to the worse, residents of Florida person been told to hole for the state’s largest evacuation efforts successful years owed to the investigation of Hurricane Milton’s devastation.

I privation to beryllium clear:

As we are preparing for Hurricane Milton, we are besides inactive surging resources to the Southeast and Appalachia to respond to Hurricane Helene.

Kamala and I are keeping each of you successful our prayers, and we volition beryllium determination with you arsenic you upwind this caller storm.

— President Biden (@POTUS) October 8, 2024

President Biden, portion speaking astatine the White House connected Tuesday, said that Hurricane Milton could beryllium 1 of the worst hurricanes successful the authorities of Florida successful a century.

“Evacuate now, now, now,” said Biden, adding that the national authorities would beryllium helping Florida “before, during and after” the hurricane hits.

📢 #Milton is an highly dangerous, life-threatening storm. We articulation with @fema to impulse you to LEAVE NOW if you are successful an evacuation zone; determination volition not beryllium clip to permission connected Wednesday. @FLSERT https://t.co/LVdNxjq7ME

— USGS (@USGS) October 8, 2024

Governor Ron DeSantis briefed astir the administration’s preparedness and said that dozens of shelters person been made successful bid to location stranded residents.

“We person 1 tract that tin bash 10,000. Others volition bash aggregate thousands. But these are designed to beryllium a structure of past resort,” Ron said astatine the property conference, arsenic reported by BBC.

Ticking the information spot Florida is in, Governor DeSantis added “Basically the full peninsula information of Florida is nether immoderate benignant of either a ticker oregon a warning,” according to AFP.

Mayor of Tampa Bay, Jane Castor, remained blunt successful her proposition toward evacuation and hurricanes effect by stating that Hurricane Helene, which deed the metropolitan country past month, was the trailer and Hurricane Milton would beryllium catastrophic.

“I tin accidental this without immoderate dramatization whatsoever: If you take to enactment successful 1 of those evacuation areas, you are going to die,” Mayor Castor told CNN.

Hurricane Milton is slated to marque a landfall successful Florida connected Wednesday.