Hurricane Milton, now a Cat 5, Bearing Down on Central Florida

[Noodles]

The latest track has it well above Miami, so we will thankfully avoid the worst of it. I do worry about the west coast, though. I have friends in the Tampa area who were not able to evacuate. Here is the latest track:

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Oh neat, a useful map. It feels like everything Inhave aeen of this show this useless super close up heat map.

Looks like it will mostly avoid my in laws in the Lady Lakes area, but not by a lot.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Sounds like Tampa has been getting hammered for a couple of hours. The eye seems to have made landfall right at Sarasota.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

More than 2 million without power as Hurricane Milton slams Florida, causes deaths and flooding

Hurricane Milton has made landfall in Florida near Siesta Key in Sarasota County, bringing powerful winds, deadly storm surge and flooding.

apnews.com

 

[Isabeau]

I’m scared to hear the news tomorrow.

 

[WolfEyes]

Oh neat, a useful map. It feels like everything Inhave aeen of this show this useless super close up heat map.

Looks like it will mostly avoid my in laws in the Lady Lakes area, but not by a lot.

The MSN.com Weather > Hurricane maps are pretty good.

Forest Grove, OR hurricane | MSN Weather

 

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It's called bird fallout.

 

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And yet...

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

And yet...

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[Innula Zenovka]

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[Kalel]

Even before Hurricane Milton had made landfall, There was a tornado outbreak across the state over 100 warnings were issued. The weather was ripe and supposedly dozens of them appeared simultaneously. emergency responders had to initiate rescue operations as several hundred homes were destroyed. numbers and data are not finalized. miami supposedly has 9 confirmed...

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/weather/2024/10/09/tornado-spotted-along-florida-highway-as-hurricane-milton-approaches/75592134007/

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/10/hurricane-milton-tornadoes-florida-deaths

 

[Beebo Brink]

Hurricane Milton: Why wealthy homeowners stay in Florida and other storm zones. (slate.com)

To the extent that these storms will push anyone from Florida, it will not be people with the means to go, but people without the means to stay. This phenomenon—sometimes called “climate gentrification”—cuts against one popular idea of climate migration, in which wealthier households move to more secure locations and leave the poor to face extreme weather.

Locals are already conscious of this outcome. “The price of repairs may mean we lose our character,” Sam Henderson, the mayor of Gulfport, told the Tampa Bay Times after Helene. “There will be a different kind of people who can afford to live here, moving forward.”

 

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[Katheryne Helendale]

Holy crap!

TikTok - Make Your Day

Edit: okay, I guess the forum doesn't unfurl TikTok videos very well. It's a compilation of what I'm assuming is Milton coverage. Some pretty scary stuff!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Holy crap!

TikTok - Make Your Day

Edit: okay, I guess the forum doesn't unfurl TikTok videos very well. It's a compilation of what I'm assuming is Milton coverage. Some pretty scary stuff!

FWIW, I'm pretty sure that's a collection of completely unrelated storm videos, and I wouldn't be surprised if none of them are actually from Hurricane Milton, lol.

Social media channels like that do stuff like this every time there's a hurricane.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Even before Hurricane Milton had made landfall, There was a tornado outbreak across the state over 100 warnings were issued. The weather was ripe and supposedly dozens of them appeared simultaneously. emergency responders had to initiate rescue operations as several hundred homes were destroyed. numbers and data are not finalized. miami supposedly has 9 confirmed...

Yup a couple of hours before "technical" landfall I remember looking at the radar and seeing all the tornado warnings in eastern Florida, there was like a train of them.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Friend checked in from Tampa

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Sal just tweeted.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

FWIW, I'm pretty sure that's a collection of completely unrelated storm videos, and I wouldn't be surprised if none of them are actually from Hurricane Milton, lol.

Social media channels like that do stuff like this every time there's a hurricane.

And what's up with the sound ?! Ugh. I swear a lot of that must have been CGI

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

And what's up with the sound ?! Ugh. I swear a lot of that must have been CGI

Yeah, more often than not, I have the sound muted on those rare occasions I'm on TikTok.

 

[Isabeau]

Sounded like Godzilla in the background.