by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
It is probably going to take months for authorities to identify all of the dead bodies from Hurricane Helene, and now Hurricane Milton could produce an even higher death toll. More than 7 million people live in the 15 Florida counties where mandatory evacuation orders have been issued. Many of those people evacuated in time, but many of them did not. As you will see below, those that did not evacuate are being told to write their names and Social Security numbers on their legs so that they can be identified when their dead bodies are recovered.
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The size of Hurricane Milton’s wind field has more than doubled since Tuesday afternoon, and it is being reported that this storm could “forever change the Sunshine State’s coastline”…
Hurricane Milton is expected to be so ferocious, it will cover nearly every beach on Florida’s west coast — and forever change the Sunshine State’s coastline, experts have warned.
At least 95% of Florida’s west coast beaches are forecast to be inundated — or continuously covered by ocean water — when the hurricane, predicted to be one of the strongest ever, is expected to make landfall Wednesday as many still recover from Helene, the US Geological Survey.
“This is the most severe level of coastal change,” the federal agency warned — while saying that “Milton’s waves and surge” could cause “erosion and overwash” to 100% of the state’s beaches.
In response to the impending storm, officials have closed the bridges to the barrier islands, and Sarasota Mayor Liz Alpert is urgently pleading with holdouts to evacuate. “You do not want to try and survive a 15-20 foot storm surge. It’s not survivable. It will be dangerous, there could be electrical wires in there,” Mayor Alpert warned.
Those that are wise evacuated way ahead of time.
Sadly, many of those that waited until the last minute to evacuate experienced tremendous difficulties.
On Wednesday morning, most of the gas stations in the Tampa Bay area were already completely out of gasoline…
As of Wednesday morning, three out of every five gas stations in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area is dry, according to data from Gas Buddy, a gas station location and savings app.
Nearly 7.3 million Floridians live in 15 counties with mandatory evacuation orders. But even as officials kept begging people to leave coastal areas – “You need to help us by evacuating,” Tampa Fire Rescue’s chief pleaded Wednesday morning, adding, “I’ve never seen anything of this magnitude” – a subset of residents across Florida’s western edge were staying put.
I don’t understand why anyone would try to ride this storm out.
Shockingly, even some parents with very young children are staying behind.
A registered nurse named Ashley Khrais says that she will be riding out this storm with her 10-month-old son and her mother…
Khrais, a registered nurse, said that despite the severity of the coming storm, she’s eager to help other residents even worse off.
From what she’s seen and heard, there are likely to be many.
“It seems very, very scary, but there’s no way to leave,” Khrais said around midday Tuesday.
Faced with daunting traffic and seemingly no gas, she said she realized she was going to have to “hunker down” and try to ride out the storm with her 10-month-old son and mother.
I hope that they are not located near the coast.
The closer you are to the water, the more likely it is that you will die.
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