BREAKING: The storm surge for Hurricane Milton is expected to be 15 feet.

Roni Laukkarinen

To give you an idea of how deadly this is, here's what 9 feet looks like.

#Milton #HurricaneMilton #Weather #ExtremeWeather #News #USA

Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

@rolle
I've got to say, I saw this on TV when they aired it locally, and it's a great graphic.

It really explains to the people living in those areas how dangerous the #StormSurge we are talking about can get, because so many of them want to stay behind and try to mitigate damage as it happens or something, and we keep trying to impress upon them that the best you can do is put your valuables in high places or in your car as part of your prep, and drive out of there. This only happens in the couple miles closest to the water, so you only need to go like a couple miles inland to get away from this.

When I lived near the coast, I evacuated three times, and it was basically just driving to a friend's house for the night. The third time ended up being two nights because it was #Hurricane Ian and that one was over us for like 24 hours, and when I got back, the house had had a foot of water in it and all the cars on the street had been destroyed by #flooding.

Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

@rolle
Also, because it really needs to be stated as many times as it takes for people to understand this, while we were trying to get people in the areas this was happening to evacuate, we were also having to tell them to stop listening to Donald trump, because he had convinced a chunk of them that if they left, FEMA would come and steal their property to give to illegals or something.

Like, this hit a republican area, and we had local Republican sheriffs and City officials having to counter this flood of crazy misinformation while we were trying to mount a hurricane response.

Meanwhile, Biden and Harris were working with the Republican Governor, DeSantis, going on TV telling people to evacuate and passing along other information, which is what every other candidate in history before Trump has done.

I'm not going to tell people how to vote, but everyone needs to understand that.