Stay and ‘you are going to die’: Florida braces for next hurricane
AFP | Tampa
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Weather-weary Florida girded yesterday for a hit from Hurricane Milton, a monster storm packing furious winds and the threat of walls of water gushing inland.
As the second huge hurricane in as many weeks rumbled toward the state’s battered west coast, a sense of looming catastrophe spread as people raced to board up their homes and evacuate to shelters or anywhere they could.
As of yesterday morning, Milton was generating maximum sustained winds of 145 mph (230 kph) and the threat of as much as 15 feet of storm surge, the National Hurricane Center said, calling it an “extremely dangerous” storm, and urging people to heed evacuation orders.
The Category 4 hurricane was to move just north of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula yesterday, it said.
After weakening from a maximum Category 5 overnight, it is forecast to make landfall Wednesday night on the coast of Florida and remain powerful as it churns across the state.
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