The viral video of a meteorologist crying while talking about Hurricane Milton has become another example of the fear of the devastating effects this phenomenon will have in the United States. Authorities have asked people to evacuate areas where the hurricane is expected to hit and the mayor of Tampa, a city of 400,000, warned anyone who decides to stay that “they will die.”
In these circumstances, images went viral of John Morales, hurricane specialist for NBC 6 in Florida, who could not hold back his tears while explaining how dangerous Milton would be. “It’s an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane. It dropped… It dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours,” Morales tried to say, his voice breaking. “Sorry. It’s terrible.”
“The maximum sustained winds are 160 miles per hour and they gain strength in the Gulf of Mexico, where the winds, I mean the seas, are incredibly warm. Record heat, as you can imagine,” Morales continued.
The “extremely dangerous” Hurricane Milton, which increased in size on Tuesday as it approaches the west coast of Florida, currently has maximum sustained winds of 270 kilometers per hour. More than 5 million people have been ordered to evacuate. This Tuesday, the first collapses were recorded on roads and gas stations.
Florida authorities have been very blunt about this. “I can say, without dramatizing at all, that if you decide to stay in one of these evacuation zones, you are going to die,” said Jane Castor, mayor of Tampa, a city of 400,000 inhabitants, in an interview with CNN . Bruce Rector, mayor of Clearwater, a municipality of about 100,000 people, echoed the same message: “Human life is our priority right now, so, as my friend Mayor Castor said, if you decide to stay in an evacuation zone, you are I will die This is very serious. “This is probably the biggest storm we’ve had here in a century.”
