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A one-legged Florida man vows to remain on his sailboat to trip out Hurricane Milton.
On Wednesday night time/Thursday morning, Southwest Florida will get slammed by a large storm.
11 PM EDT Replace: Hurricane #Milton stays a class 5 storm with barely weaker winds of 160 mph with the next strain of 915 mb. Milton is predicted to make landfall within the subsequent 24 hours someplace between Tampa Bay & simply south of Sarasota.
Milton has the potential to be… pic.twitter.com/97hJgNscsQ
— StormHQ ☈ (@StormHQwx) October 9, 2024
Forward of the storm, TikToker Tampa Terrence interviewed a one-legged man on his boat who’s refusing to go away an evacuation zone as a result of he believes it’s God’s plan for him to remain throughout the storm.
“I put my religion in God greater than I put my religion in man. God advised me to return out right here and get a ship. I got here out right here and obtained a ship and every little thing he’s been telling me the previous few days is that I’m doing the fitting factor. He’s obtained my again, I’m in fine condition, I ain’t sweating it.”
“We’re setup and we all know what we’re doing, so long as the water retains rising, we’ll be superb.”
The police finally got here in an try to get the person to go away however he nonetheless refused.
Simply final night time, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor warned those who they would definitely die in the event that they determined to remain behind in one of many evacuation zones.
“I can say this with none dramatization in any respect: In case you select to remain in a kind of evacuation areas, you’re going to die.”
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor: “I can say this with none dramatization in any respect: In case you select to remain in a kind of evacuation areas, you’re going to die.” pic.twitter.com/CP0VmK3TUC
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 8, 2024
