Over 3m Floridians Out Of Power As Hurricane Milton Moves Towards Bahamas

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Over 3m Floridians Out Of Power As Hurricane Milton Moves Towards Bahamas   https://osazuwaakonedo.news/over-3m-floridians-out-of-power-as-hurricane-milton-moves-towards-bahamas/10/10/2024/   #Breaking News #Bahamas #Biden #Florida #Joe #MILTON #NOAA #USA ©October 10th, 2024 ®October 11, 2024 6:58 pm Authority has confirmed that Hurricane Milton that cut off estimated three million people from electricity in Florida in the United States of America, USA since Wednesday is still moving eastward at a low pace in the state on Thursday and the Hurricane which is now considered as Category One tropical storm is expected to move towards Northern Bahamas tonight      #OsazuwaAkonedo

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00:00Authority has confirmed that Hurricane Milton that caught off estimated 3 million people

00:05from electricity in Florida in the United States of America, USA since Wednesday is

00:10still moving eastward at a low pace in the stealth on Thursday and the hurricane which

00:15is now considered as Category 1 tropical storm is expected to move towards northern Bahamas

00:20tonight.

00:21National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, NOAA's Hurricane Center stated this few hours

00:28ago in a statement.

00:30Several properties in Florida has been destroyed by the hurricane.

00:34A drone footage captures damage caused by Hurricane Milton to tropical fields roof.

00:40The stadium is the home of the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg, Florida.

00:47Photos made available by residents showed the hurricane's deadly onslaught in Florida

00:51after 100 mile per hour winds left a trail of destruction, as dangerous storm surge threatens

00:57the East Coast.

00:59CNN reported with footage of a crane seemed to have fallen into a building in St. Petersburg,

01:06Florida, as Hurricane Milton is making its way through the state, bringing dangerous

01:12flooding.

01:13St. Petersburg is experiencing a 1 in 1,000 year rainfall event, according to CNN.

01:22Photographs showed a Kelly Road in Pasco County was left in pieces after Hurricane Milton

01:26tore through Florida on wind and still ravaging at a low pace on Thursday.

01:31An official statement indicated that Hurricane Milton, now a Category 1 storm, is moving

01:38away from Florida, but the state faces severe flooding, strong winds, and widespread power

01:44outages.

01:45Over 3 million people are still without electricity as officials assess the damage.

01:52About two people were reportedly killed in fault piers and rooftops, including Tropicana

01:58Field, were ripped off by winds.

02:01A video had shown moment NOAA calls fly into Hurricane Milton for critical data collection

02:07as the extremely dangerous Category 5, which is now considered by many as Category 1 storm,

02:13was on course to slam into Florida on Wednesday.

02:17President Joe Biden had pressed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for being cooperative and doing

02:24a great job in his response to Hurricanes Helen and Milton, despite Vice President Kamala

02:31Harris slamming DeSantis for playing political games, instead of doing his job in response

02:37to the storms.

02:39NBC News had reported on Monday that DeSantis was denying phone calls from Harasser's team.

02:46People are in desperate need of support right now and playing political games with this

02:51moment.

02:52In these crisis situations, these are the height of emergency situations, it's just

02:57utterly irresponsible, and it is selfish, Harris told reporters Monday.

03:03Meanwhile, on Tuesday, President Joe Biden's opinion about the Florida Governor's response

03:09to Hurricane Helen and his preparation for Milton diverged substantially from that of

03:14his Vice Presidents.

03:16The Governor of Florida has been cooperative.

03:19He said he's gotten all that he needs.

03:22I talked to him again yesterday, and I said, no, you're doing a great job.

03:28It's all being done well and we thank you for it, Biden said at a press conference from

03:34the White House Tuesday.

03:36There was a rough start in some places, but every governor, every governor, from Florida

03:42to North Carolina, has been fully cooperative and supportive.

03:47Ahead of Wednesday, Florida authorities informed those who do not want to evacuate ahead of

03:53Hurricane Milton to mark themselves with their names and the phone number of a family member

03:57so their bodies can be identified and their loved ones notified when they are found.

04:03In comments highlighted by Midnight, CNN's Paul Murphy on Tuesday repeated the message

04:09of a police chief he spoke with, if you stay, they cannot get you.

04:14They were able to do some water rescues in Hurricane Helen that will not happen with

04:20Milton, Murphy said.

04:23Once the winds, which are forecasted to start here at tropical storm force gusts, once they

04:29start tomorrow at around 8 a.m., he expects that by noon, they are not going to be able,

04:36they are going to have to evacuate the island themselves.

04:40So starting at noon tomorrow, if you're here, there will not be help coming for you.

04:46You are on your own.

04:48It was unclear which island Murphy was referring to.

04:52It's that same message we're hearing from officials, write your name, write your number,

04:58write someone else's number, your date of birth on you, Murphy said.

05:04Because when they come looking for you, they want to know who to contact because you decided

05:09to stay.

05:10Tampa mayor Jane Castor issued a similar warning for Floridians on CNN on Monday night, saying

05:17she's never delivered such a dire message.

05:21This is literally catastrophic and I can say without any dramatization whatsoever, if you

05:26choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you're going to die, she said.

05:32This is something that I have never seen in my life, she continued.

05:38People need to get out.

05:40Storm battered Florida's breasts on Tuesday for a direct hit from massive Hurricane Milton,

05:45as people hurried to finish their storm preparations and flee from the second monster weather system

05:50in as many weeks.

05:52It's a matter of life and death, and that's not hyperbole, President Joe Biden said, urging

05:59those under evacuation orders to evacuate now, now, now.

06:05According to the National Hurricane Center, Milton was generating maximum sustained winds

06:10of 150 miles per hour and threatening up to 15 feet of storm surge as of Tuesday morning.

06:17The storm attained maximum Category 5 status overnight before weakening, and is expected

06:23to make landfall wednight as a Category 3 storm.

06:27At a press conference, Governor Ron DeSantis said that, basically the entire peninsular

06:33portion of Florida is under some type of either a watch or a warning.

06:38National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Hurricane Center in Florida in a statement

06:44few hours ago stated that, at 8 a.m. Eastern Daylight 7 time, the center of Hurricane Milton

06:51was located near Latitude 28.9 North, Longitude 79.5 West.

06:59Milton is moving toward the east-northeast near 18 miles per hour, and this general motion

07:04is expected to continue today, followed by a turn toward the east tonight.

07:10On the forecast track, the center of Milton will continue to move away from Florida and

07:15pass to the north of the Bahamas today.

07:18Storm-sustained winds are near 85 miles per hour with higher gusts.

07:23Gradual weakening is expected, but Milton is forecast to become a powerful extratropical

07:29node tonight.

07:31Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles from the center and tropical storm-force

07:37winds extend outward up to 205 miles.

07:41A sustained wind of 58 miles per hour and a gust to 76 miles per hour was recently reported

07:48at a weather station in Maryland.

07:51A sustained wind of 46 miles per hour and a gust to 67 miles per hour was recently reported

07:58at the Cocoa-Patrick Air Force Base.

08:01The estimated minimum central pressure is 980 Mb.

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