Hurricane Milton remains a ferocious storm that could land a once-in-a-century direct hit with towering storm surges and turn debris from Helene's devastation into projectiles.
peninsula may not be a stranger to extreme weather, but Tampa Bay has managed to avoid getting hit directly by a hurricane since 1921., spurring the Canadian government to issue a travel advisory for the entire peninsula, including Tampa Bay, and urging Canadians to “avoid non-essential travel” around the region.
It added that the storm is likely to bring excessive rainfall and violent winds, which could cause flash flooding and landslides, disrupting essential services like transportation, power, water and food supply, communications, emergency services and medical care.Canadians already in the affected region were urged to exercise caution, monitor local news and weather reports and follow the instructions of local authorities.
Almost the entirety of Florida’s west coast was under a hurricane or tropical storm warning as the storm and its 145 m.p.h. winds spun just off Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, heading toward the state at 12 m.p.h. and sucking energy from the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters.Milton’s centre could come ashore Wednesday night in the Tampa Bay area, which has a population of more than 3.3 million people.
“You do not have to get on the interstate and go far away,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a Tuesday morning news briefing, assuring residents that there would be enough gas to fuel their cars for the trip. “You can evacuate tens of miles; you do not have to evacuate hundreds of miles away. You do have options.”DeSantis said the state has helped evacuate more than 200 health-care facilities in Milton’s path and that 36 county-run shelters are open.
That path would largely spare other states ravaged by Helene, which killed at least 230 people on its path from Florida to the Appalachian Mountains.Tampa Bay has not been hit directly by a major hurricane since 1921, and authorities fear luck is about to run out.
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