President Joe Biden canceled a planned trip to Germany and Angola to supervise storm preparations in addition to the existing Hurricane Helene response because of the storm’s potential for disaster.
Florida governor Ron De Santis remarked on Tuesday morning: “Now is the time to execute your [evacuation] plan … but that time is running out.”
A state of emergency was proclaimed by his office for some of the severely hit districts.
Later on, a like one was also declared in some areas of Georgia.
With more than a million people under evacuation orders, state employees raced to remove Hurricane Helene’s wreckage.
Hurricane Milton is so powerful that, in spite of forecasters’ expectations that it will weaken before making landfall, it has the potential to strike Tampa and St. Petersburg once in a century, submerging the areas in potentially fatal storm surges.
At a press conference on Monday, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor stated, “This is the real deal here with Milton.” “If you try to compete with Mother Nature, she always wins.
