Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane Monday on a path toward Florida population centers including Tampa and Orlando, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for potential mass evacuations.

Hurricane Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane Monday on a path toward Florida population centers including Tampa and Orlando, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for potential mass evacuations less than two weeks after a catastrophic Hurricane Helene swamped the coastline.

Officials said they are preparing for the largest evacuation since Hurricane Irma in 2017 when about 7 million Floridians left their homes.

            • immutable@lemm.ee
              14·
              2 months ago

              I heard from the woman that broke Jewish space lasers that “they” have the ability to move hurricanes. And so I guess “they” wanted to protect trumps orange house because “they” are secretly working for project 2025 and there’s probably a level Q drop coming soon to explain how this is all part of the plan but also is part of a different plan that true Americans have to fight like hell against…

              God even play acting one of the brainwormed people for a paragraph is exhausting

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        Anyone watching to see if Trump moves any more classified documents out of there before the storm hits?

          • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 months ago

            Only by virtue of the bathroom historically being the lowest, centermost room of a typical American home (and usually without windows that can break in a storm). If that is not the case for you, you should make a mental note of where in your house is such a place.

    • Lightsong@lemmy.world
      41·
      2 months ago

      I looked few other path prediction and whatnot. Seems like most of them got hurricanes at CAT3 when it hit the coast. It just show CAT4/5 during the middle of the gulf. I don’t know much about hurricanes but maybe it’s just sensational headline?

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    231·
    2 months ago

    “This terrible tragedy is because of the gays” - Pat Robertson

    Also climate change is a hoax. - probably also Pat Robertson although at least that fucker’s already dead.

    • wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io
      7·
      2 months ago

      There are a whole trump load of Magats that infested that area of Florida in recent years. If we’re relying on Pat as our local weatherman, you would have thought the hurricane would approach further south.

      Same thing up in those Western NC mountains. Asheville may be a cesspool of sin, but everything around it is a sea of red.

      All schadenfreude aside, this whole hurricane season really really sucks. I hold a lot of sympathy and empathy for those just trying to live their lives. We as a collective community are not doing enough fast enough and we need better leadership in place that will bite the bullet here and make the hard political decisions that need to be made.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 months ago

        I hold a lot of sympathy and empathy for those just trying to live their lives. We as a collective community are not doing enough fast enough and we need better leadership in place that will bite the bullet here and make the hard political decisions that need to be made.

        Forty years and counting.

      • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Unfortunately, that political will power, can’t exist when half the population is actively trying to burn it down.

  • nailingjello@lemmy.zip
    13·
    2 months ago

    From the article, in case anyone is interested in current timing or trajectory.

    Its center could come ashore Wednesday in the Tampa Bay area, and it could remain a hurricane as it moves across central Florida toward the Atlantic Ocean.