TAMPA – Mandatory evacuations are underway across the west coast of Florida as millions of residents prepare for life-threatening impacts from Hurricane Milton, which continues to rapidly intensify over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and strengthened into a powerful Category 5 storm with winds of 175 mph.
Milton strengthens into Category 5 hurricane, triggers storm surge warnings for Florida's Gulf Coast
The storm, forecast to make landfall Wednesday evening in Florida, is now a Category 5 storm with sustained wind speeds of 160 mph.www.nbcnews.com
That is gonna suck balls if it stays cat 5.When I watched the news this morning at 4 a.m., it was still a cat 1. By around 1 or 2 this afternoon it was cat 5. That's crazy.
They're saying it should drop down to a 3 when it makes landfall late Wednesday/early Thursday morning.That is gonna suck balls if it stays cat 5.
Might sound crazy, and this is just me, but if I lived in an area where flooding was common, I’d maybe, I dunno, have a **** ton of supplies and materials stockpiled to protect myself as much as possible. Again, that’s just me.They were just showing people in Orlando filling sandbags. Limit of 25 forty lb. bags each. 25 sandbags aren't going to do squat unless they live in a tiny home.
But this is Orlando. They're far enough inland that they don't usually get the worst of it. But, yeah...Might sound crazy, and this is just me, but if I lived in an area where flooding was common, I’d maybe, I dunno, have a **** ton of supplies and materials stockpiled to protect myself as much as possible. Again, that’s just me.