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.
It would be very difficult for me to overstate the power of this storm.
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 some areas, the water will be twice as high as the average person.
Sarasota Mayor Liz Alpert is warning residents in her city that what is coming is “not survivable”…
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.
In other areas, the gasoline shortages were even worse.
Of course there are large numbers of local residents that never intended to evacuate at all. The following comes from CNN…
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.
One Instagram influencer that lives right along the water in Sarasota tried to explain to her followers why she has purposely chosen to stay behind…
‘So if you’ve been following Hurricane Milton, um, I’m going to die! It’s supposed to make landfall in the Sarasota-Bradenton area. I’m in Sarasota, I live on the water, it’s zone A, mandatory evacuation,’ she said.
Calloway then attempted to explain why she didn’t get out of her home in time for the storm.
‘I can’t drive, first of all. Second of all, the airport is close. Third of all, the last time I evacuated for a hurricane, I went to my mom’s house in Northport for Hurricane Ian,’ she said.
She went on to explain that she didn’t want to go to her mother’s house this time around because she had such a horrible experience during Hurricane Ian.
Hopefully being extremely stubborn does not get her killed.
Another woman that has chosen to ride this storm out says that she feels safe because she lives on the fourth floor of her building…
“All my friends are mad at me from Ohio,” added Speckhart, a Cincinnati native. “They keep calling me, saying, ‘You’re gonna die.’ And then you got (Tampa Mayor) Jane Castor saying, ‘If you don’t get out, you’re gonna die.’
“But … if Tampa would get it, I mean, you figure, what are they gonna be, 12 to 15 feet? I mean, that could be two stories,” the fourth-floor-dweller said of the potential surge. Their building’s top floors are much higher than that, she went on, and some units have hurricane shutters and windows.
“My biggest thing is: I don’t want to leave,” Speckhart concluded. “I just see what happens in a week. You know, you got mold, you got damage. I figure I can be here.”
She is literally gambling with her life.
In the end, there will be a lot of dead bodies.
During an interview with CNN, Holmes Beach police chief William Tokajer made quite an ominous statement…
Holmes Beach police chief William Tokajer has warned stubborn residents who have refused to evacuate that ‘this is not going to end well’.
‘If you don’t leave, you’re on your own,’ he said in an interview with CNN. ‘Take a pen and write your name and social security number on your leg so that we have a contact if we find you.’
His remark echos that of Tampa Mayor Jane Castor who compares locals’ homes to their ‘coffin’.
What a thing to say.
But I can’t blame him for saying it.
In the aftermath of this storm, authorities will be trying to identify large numbers of victims very rapidly.
Many animals that have been left behind will also die in this storm.
In one case, a small dog was actually tied to a pole and left to die on the side of a major highway.
Thankfully, the small dog was rescued in time by a Florida police officer…
A Florida trooper rescued a small dog who was tied to a pole off a major highway in a pool of floodwater as Hurricane Milton begins to overwhelm the state.
An unidentified Florida Highway Patrolman was seen walking through a grassy area on the side of I-75 near Bruce B Downs Boulevard near Tampa to rescue the small white pup.
‘It’s OK, buddy, it’s OK,’ the officer could be heard saying as the dog tried to back away. ‘It’s OK, it’s OK!’
You have to be extremely evil to tie a dog to a pole and abandon it when a hurricane is about to hit.
As I discuss in my brand new book entitled “Why”, our world has literally been saturated with evil at this point.
The reason why so many people are doing such horrible things is because they have willingly chosen to embrace the darkness.
But no matter how hard they may try, they will never be able to outrun the consequences of their actions.
As for Hurricane Milton, those that made a choice to evacuate will live.
Sadly, many of those that made a choice to stay will not.
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