Hurricane-hit Florida is bracing for more storm surge and damaging winds as potentially devastating Hurricane Milton barrels toward the state's west coast.
Treasure Island is in the expected path of the storm, and residents like Chuck Fuller, already facing the brunt of Hurricane Helen, are on high alert.
Fuller said in an interview on Fox News early Tuesday that he planned to evacuate ahead of the storm's landfall and urged others to “shelter in place” as well.
“There's nothing we can do… We've never seen a storm this big, probably in over 100 years,” he told “Fox & Friends First” co-host Carly Shimkus. spoke.
Treasure Island resident Chuck Fuller urged other coastal Florida residents to stay out of the way of potentially devastating Hurricane Milton. (Fox News)
“One of the scariest reasons is that [for] Lives are being lost and people are drowning,” he said of the threat of storm surge. “So just get out there and stay safe.”
Residents of the Sunshine State are heeding evacuation orders, filling interstates and heading inland to shelters and safer areas in other states.
Fuller's area has already been hit hard by Hurricane Helen late last month, and now faces mounting pressure to do everything possible to prevent the destruction, street sewage and damage that Milton could cause. facing.
“I want to warn those who may be watching this and are still on barrier islands. For many years now, the storm has been coming. [there was] There is no major damage, but there may be some water in there. I haven't had any water in my house, but there may be some wind damage. “The first year we sandbagged it, moved the car, nothing happened, and then it just keeps happening, so we get complacent,” he said.
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Hurricane Milton's projected path indicates it will likely impact much of the Florida peninsula.
“But what I can say is, listen to the advice of the officials and get out, because we don't know anything.” [what’s coming]. ”
Preparations for Milton required boarding up homes, barricading with sandbags and saying “a lot of prayers,” Fuller said, adding that after Helen, the area had no room to “take risks.” He added that there was no.
Milton jumped to Category 5 on Monday, but returned to Category 5 four hours after the storm. The storm is expected to make landfall late Wednesday.
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