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Tampa mayor issues dire warning before Hurricane Milton: ‘If you choose to stay … you are going to die’
Nypost ^ | 10/08/2024 | David Propper

Posted on 10/08/2024 5:17:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The mayor of Tampa, a city that’s in the crosshairs of Hurricane Milton, issued a grave warning to Florida residents who don’t heed calls to evacuate ahead of the monster storm.

“If you choose to stay … you are going to die,” Mayor Jane Castor bluntly said on CNN while talking about the dangers of Milton, a “literally catastrophic” Category 5 hurricane that’s barreling toward the Sunshine State.

The powerful storm could hit Florida as early as Wednesday and may be more destructive than deadly Hurricane Helene, which ripped through parts of the Sunshine State just last week

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; hurricane; mayor; milton; tampa
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Jane sounds fun... Yikes
1 posted on 10/08/2024 5:17:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let me put this as clearly and succinctly as I can: GTFO!


2 posted on 10/08/2024 5:19:30 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Women are so dramatic.


3 posted on 10/08/2024 5:20:33 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: ComputerGuy

That was the proper way to handle it. Nobody is adequately prepared to handle a CAT 5.


4 posted on 10/08/2024 5:24:17 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (Ukraine, Russia, Iran, and Israel all pretty much deserve one another.)
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To: fwdude

Especially lesbian women Democrats?


5 posted on 10/08/2024 5:30:44 AM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And yet Police, Fire, DPW etc will remain on duty.


6 posted on 10/08/2024 5:35:20 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Eli Kopter

Even lesbian women Democrats are occasionally correct.


7 posted on 10/08/2024 5:36:33 AM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ain’t HE staying?


8 posted on 10/08/2024 5:36:47 AM PDT by camle (keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: camle

i meant SBHE, but it probably doesn’t make a diff


9 posted on 10/08/2024 5:37:46 AM PDT by camle (keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She is a leftist [expletive deleted], but correct in this instance. I worked in South Tampa and lived in Riverview until I was transferred last month. If the eye landfalls north of the bay entrance, everything in zones A and B is going to be leveled by the storm surge. The rest is going to be beaten about by wind.

Be somewhere else.


10 posted on 10/08/2024 5:38:50 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: ComputerGuy

People on the water or in low lying areas could very well die from staying. What most people fail to take into account is when things get really bad there will be no one to rescue them as first responders won’t be committing suicide to save some dumbass who didn’t listen to the warnings.


11 posted on 10/08/2024 5:43:13 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“if you can get some plywood you can ride it out” — James Gregory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bz9OuaKLRU


12 posted on 10/08/2024 5:44:09 AM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m from FLA and know hurricanes. We have good friends in Sarasota and I asked them to leave and come stay with us in Virginia.

Hope they do. Southeast part of a Fla hurricane is always the worst part......

This may well be most devastating hurricane to ever hit FLA.

If I were there, I’d leave. My SiL in Naples, a young widow, is headed for Key Largo. Smart.


13 posted on 10/08/2024 5:45:22 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If I wear my water wings I’ll be fine!


14 posted on 10/08/2024 5:45:49 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Costal Florida seems like its almsot becoming unlivable as of the last couple years.

I know property insurance has doubled and tripled in some cases....and in others...you cant even get insurance through normal carriers anymore.

I feel bad for the folks down there.


15 posted on 10/08/2024 5:46:35 AM PDT by suasponte137
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And yet Police, Fire, DPW etc will remain on duty.

They're experts on hurricane survival. Don't try this yourself.

16 posted on 10/08/2024 5:47:15 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: ComputerGuy

Let me put this as clearly and succinctly as I can: GTFO!
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Yes, this one is going to be real bad. it looks like its going to destroy a wide swath of central Florida from coast to coast. The storm surge is going to be extremely high 20-30 feet as the storm picks up its forward motion. I was hoping the cold fronts coming down from the north would stop its northerly movement out of the gulf but the storm is so intense nothing affects what it wants to do


17 posted on 10/08/2024 5:48:19 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: fwdude

you presume the sex.


18 posted on 10/08/2024 5:48:24 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Arlis

God Bless your friends


19 posted on 10/08/2024 5:48:53 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: Tom Tetroxide

That’s the secret. How did you learn it?!


20 posted on 10/08/2024 5:49:16 AM PDT by xoxox
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