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.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that it was imperative that messes from Helene be cleared ahead of Milton’s arrival so they don’t become dangerous flying projectiles. More than 300 vehicles picked up debris Sunday but encountered a locked landfill gate when they tried to drop it off. State troopers used a rope tied to a pickup truck and busted it open, DeSantis said.
“We don’t have time for bureaucracy and red tape,” DeSantis said. “We have to get the job done.”
Interesting to see the Governor and State Troopers breaking into a landfill of all places, trying to get debris in a central location I guess. Although unless they also have someone in this previously locked landfill burying or securing in some other manner all this debit, then it’s just putting it all in one place you hope the hurricane doesn’t hit?
Edit - Anyone in Florida and the surrounding areas stay safe! Evacuate if you can.
Wait, DeSantis is using his government effectively?
By committing crimes?
Seems an effective government would have organized taking this stuff to a landfill that was operating properly and would correctly store the debris.
Sounds like he sent trucks to a non operating landfill, then decided “landfills are just big fields you dump stuff right? It can’t possibly be more complicated than that”
Here’s a video about all the actual engineering that goes into proper waste management. Maybe the people that operated that landfill had roped it off because they knew no one would be there to correctly manage debris drop off
Okay, that sounds more like it.
Should be arrested for vandalism and trespassing.
If only there was a government official that could have coordinated with the landfill
Government waste management is socialism.
Why use a nudge when you can have an agenda and a sledgehammer.
It has been a tough two weeks for Florida.
“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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, that political will power, can’t exist when half the population is actively trying to burn it down.
AP - Hurricane Milton is forecast to become a Category 5 and is taking aim at Florida
Winds over 160 mph.
Possible silver lining: Mar-a-Lago is right in its path.
Anyone watching to see if Trump moves any more classified documents out of there before the storm hits?
I don’t know… don’t they always tell you to seek refuge in a bathroom in these situations?
Shitter’s full, Clark. Of classified documents.
“Does Eddie know that’s not safe?”
“He ought to, it’s illegal.”
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.
Please don’t lie to me.
Ah fuck, the predicted path moved.
Just use a sharpie and move it back.
Should try thoughts and prayers.
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
God protected Trump
Edit: do i really need put an /s ?
If this god protected Trump while letting a ton of other people die, it’s a real asshole of a god.
I was trying to be sarcastic
You’re living in a world where people say that sort of thing in all seriousness.
Officially 5 now
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?
Probably a CAT 4 or strong CAT 3 at landfall.
Update:
Well fuck…
People don’t think global warming be like that, but it do.
If Florida makes it ILLEGAL to Mention Hurricane Milton then Problem SOLVED!
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.
