Dispatches From Hurricane Milton Evacuees
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday night along Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm. It’s expected to be one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the U.S. in more than 100 years, with sustained winds of over 120 miles an hour. As Milton moved closer to shore Wednesday, strong inland winds triggered tornado warnings across parts of Florida, and at least one tornado was reported near Fort Myers. WAD’s own Josie Duffy Rice got in contact with two friends who evacuated from western Florida ahead of the storm.
Later in the show, Abrahm Lustgarten, climate reporter for ProPublica and author of the book ‘On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America,’ talks about the ways climate change is reshaping how — and where — we live.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday October 10th. I'm Jane Kosten and this is what a day! |
| 0:05.0 | The show where, while we appreciate French President Emmanuel Macron's passionate plea to keep the show Emily and |
| 0:10.5 | Paris in, um, Paris, after the character, spoiler alert, ends the recent season with a move to Rome. |
| 0:17.0 | We will find hard and we will ask them to remain Emily in Paris and Roma doesn't make sense. |
| 0:22.0 | We're not sure that's official president business. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, X is reinstated in Brazil and Tik Talk is in legal hot water in the U.S. |
| 0:36.0 | Plus, both presidential campaigns focus their attention on Arizona. |
| 0:40.0 | But first, Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday night along Florida's golf coast as a category 3 storm. |
| 0:46.0 | It is a nightmare scenario for the state. |
| 0:49.0 | For one, the region was hit by another major storm, Helene, just two weeks ago. |
| 0:54.0 | Many communities along Florida's Gulf Coast are still cleaning up debris. |
| 0:57.6 | But on its own, Milton is just a massive storm. |
| 1:01.0 | It's expected to be one of the most powerful storms to hit the US in more than a |
| 1:04.6 | hundred years. The hurricane has sustained winds well over 120 miles per hour. |
| 1:10.1 | Strong winds inland triggered tornado warnings across parts of Florida on Wednesday, and at least one tornado was reported near Fort Myers. |
| 1:17.0 | More than 5 million people are under evacuation orders. |
| 1:20.0 | During a briefing on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Corinne Jean-Pierre said |
| 1:24.6 | emergency aid had been pre-positioned in Florida ahead of the storm's arrival. |
| 1:28.2 | Including eight urban search and rescue teams, three U.S. Coast Guard Swift Water Rescue Teams, |
| 1:35.0 | 15.6 million meals, 13.9 million liters of water, already pre-positioned, |
| 1:41.0 | an additional 20 million meals and 40 million leaders of water ready |
| 1:46.2 | to deploy as needed. |
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