MIAMI.— A little more than a week after Helene whipped Floridawhere he left death and destruction, is now on alert for the possible arrival of Milton like a powerful hurricane.
Milton advances as a storm in the Gulf of Mexicobut, in an unusual behavior for the place where it is located, it is heading to Florida.
Where is Milton and where is he going?
The eye was in the morning today 1,385 kilometers west-southwest of Tampa, Florida, turning east at 7 kilometers per hour, with maximum sustained winds of 95 km/h, said the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
“Milton is moving slowly but is set to strengthen rapidly,” the institute said.
“There is the belief that a powerful hurricane that could threaten human lives “It will affect parts of the west coast of Florida by the middle of this week.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said today that although no one knows where it will hit Milton, it is evident that Florida will be affected.
“I don’t think there is any scenario in which we do not have a significant impact, at this time,” he lamented.
They call on the population of Florida to prepare for Milton
“They have time to prepare: all day today, all day Monday, probably all day Tuesday, to make sure their plans for hurricane preparation be ready.”
“Find out your evacuation zone. There will be voluntary and non-voluntary evacuations,” he stressed.
DeSantis said up to 4,000 National Guard troops are assisting the Florida Division of Emergency Management and the Florida Department of Transportation in clearing debris.
State of emergency in Florida counties
And declared the state of emergency in 35 counties as a precaution.
Likewise, he said that residents must prepare for more power outages and other disturbances.
“All available state resources… are used to help clear debris. We will work 24 hours…, it is a task of the entire team,” indicated the governor.
They defend the government’s actions in the face of Hurricane Helene
The administrator of the Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)Deanne Criswell, defended her agency’s actions in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
This, “before the falsehoods propagated by Republicans and amplified by former President Donald Trump, which created a wave of misinformation in devastated communities.”
“This type of rhetoric does not help people and it is unfortunate that there are people who are putting politics above helping the community,” Criswell told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
“Falsehoods have created fear and mistrust among the inhabitants to the thousands of FEMA employees and volunteers throughout the southeast of the country,” he said.
Despite this, Criswell said, the agency since is already preparing for Miltoneven though it is not known where the meteor will hit this week on the Florida peninsula.
“We are working with the state to find out what their needs are, so we can meet them before the storm hits,” he said.
Atlantic hurricane season
The Atlantic hurricane season intensifies at a time when rescue forces continue to search for missing people in the southeastern United States after the passage of Helene, which left a trail of death and destruction from Florida to the Appalachian Mountains.
For his part, the Hurricane Kirk It was reduced to a Category 2 in the Atlantic, with maximum sustained winds of 165 km/h and causing storm surge and dangerous conditions from Bermuda to the US and Canadian coasts.
He Hurricane Leslie It was also moving northwest across the Atlantic, with maximum sustained winds of 140 km/h, but without threatening land.
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