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Amid the looming threat of Hurricane Milton’s landfall in Florida, the US President Joe Biden has warned the people in the American state to evacuate immediately as a “matter of life and death”.
According to multiple reports, Hurricane Milton has weakened slightly from Category 5 to Category 4 but it still remains lethal with a wind speed of 145mph (233km/h) after hitting Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.
And to add to the worse, residents of Florida have been told to prepare for the state’s largest evacuation efforts in years due to the analysis of Hurricane Milton’s devastation.
I want to be clear:
As we are preparing for Hurricane Milton, we are also still surging resources to the Southeast and Appalachia to respond to Hurricane Helene.
Kamala and I are keeping all of you in our prayers, and we will be there with you as you weather this new storm.
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 8, 2024
President Biden, while speaking at the White House on Tuesday, said that Hurricane Milton could be one of the worst hurricanes in the state of Florida in a century.
“Evacuate now, now, now,” said Biden, adding that the federal government would be helping Florida “before, during and after” the hurricane hits.
📢 #Milton is an extremely dangerous, life-threatening storm. We join with @fema to urge you to LEAVE NOW if you are in an evacuation zone; there will not be time to leave on Wednesday. @FLSERT https://t.co/LVdNxjq7ME
— USGS (@USGS) October 8, 2024
Governor Ron DeSantis briefed about the administration’s preparedness and said that dozens of shelters have been made in order to house stranded residents.
“We have one site that can do 10,000. Others will do multiple thousands. But these are designed to be a shelter of last resort,” Ron said at the press conference, as reported by BBC.
Ticking the danger spot Florida is in, Governor DeSantis added “Basically the entire peninsula portion of Florida is under some type of either a watch or a warning,” according to AFP.
Mayor of Tampa Bay, Jane Castor, remained blunt in her proposition toward evacuation and hurricanes effect by stating that Hurricane Helene, which hit the metropolitan area last month, was the trailer and Hurricane Milton would be catastrophic.
“I can say this without any dramatization whatsoever: If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die,” Mayor Castor told CNN.
Hurricane Milton is slated to make a landfall in Florida on Wednesday.
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