• 2 months ago
Hurricane Milton: flee or die in historic storm, Floridians told
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Bumper to bumper traffic jammed main roads out of Florida’s third largest city as tens of thousands of residents fled Hurricane Milton, which has exploded into one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.

The storm swelled into a top-level Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 180mph on Monday night, threatening the long-feared scenario of a direct strike on Tampa, the most vulnerable metropolitan area in the US for ocean surge flooding.

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00:00So, I just got off the phone with Administrator Criswell at FEMA, and I cannot stress enough
00:25to all the folks in Florida, in the Tampa area, please listen to evacuation orders.
00:32Please listen to your local officials, because I know a lot of folks out there have survived
00:39these hurricanes before.
00:41This one is going to be very, very serious, and I urge you to please just grab whatever
00:47you need, listen to the orders you're getting from your local officials.
00:51They know what they're telling you, and they know what Milton is about to be, so please
00:56do that.
00:57The other point I'd make is that there's a lot of mis- and disinformation being pushed
01:02out there by the former president about what is available, in particular to the survivors
01:08of Lillean, and first of all, it's extraordinarily irresponsible.
01:13It's about him, it's not about you, and the reality is that FEMA has so many resources
01:19that are available to folks who desperately need them now, and resources that are about
01:25helping people get back on their feet and rebuild and have places to go.
01:31You know, moments of crisis, if nothing else, should really be the moment that anyone who
01:38calls themselves a leader, says they're going to put politics aside and put the people first.
01:44People are in desperate need of support right now, and playing political games at this moment
01:49in these crisis situations, these are the height of emergency situations, is just utterly
01:55irresponsible, and it is selfish, and it is about political gamesmanship, instead of doing
02:01the job that you took an oath to do, which is to put the people first.

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