Hurricane Milton's triple threat
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
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Since then, the predicted wind intensity for Hurricane Milton has ebbed and flowed ahead of the hurricane's expected landfall in Florida on Wednesday.
But for now, experts are calling it an "extremely life-threatening situation."
NPR spoke to a meteorologist who broke down the triple threat Hurricane Milton poses.
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| 0:00.0 | In the span of one day, a category one hurricane headed for Western Florida escalated to the highest intensity there is, a category 5. |
| 0:10.0 | Since then, the predicted wind intensity has ebbed and flowed ahead of the hurricane's expected |
| 0:15.4 | landfall in Florida on Wednesday. |
| 0:18.0 | But for now, forecasters are calling it a worst-case scenario. |
| 0:22.2 | This has the potential to be a type of storm, |
| 0:23.9 | not only that presents danger right now, |
| 0:26.5 | not only can have serious damage, |
| 0:28.9 | but also can have kind of that indelible mark on a community. |
| 0:32.7 | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and a press conference on Tuesday. |
| 0:36.5 | Over 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate from Florida's West Coast. |
| 0:41.3 | William Tharp, a 65-year-old resident of Sarasota, told NPR he's |
| 0:45.9 | planning to leave his home Wednesday morning to seek safety at his office a few miles |
| 0:50.7 | inland. I mean I literally do not have any idea whether there will be a house to come back to. |
| 0:56.6 | So I'm kind of looking around and saying like that, you know, and looking at the house like I'm never |
| 0:59.8 | going to see the contents again. Consider this. |
| 1:04.0 | A second major hurricane is headed for Florida's West Coast. |
| 1:08.0 | What are residents about to face? From NPR, I'm Wanna Summers. |
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