Big Thank You to the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service
The National Hurricane Center did an extraordinary job with Milton. Thank you very much!!!
I'm borrowing this from Fox 5. Twelve miles. Absolutely extraordinary. And, we should thank God it wasn't 18 miles farther north. That would have taken it up the mouth of Tampa Bay. The damage to the south would have been virtually the same but the damage in the Tampa area -- already bad -- would have been catastrophic.
Phenomenal indeed
ReplyDeleteJust saw the following on Reddit:
ReplyDelete"As a floridian I never take tornado warnings seriously because every time it rains here we always get them so I have become numb to it.... My community got hit by multiple tornadoes on Wednesday at 5PM. One of which formed behind my house and went straight down my road and demolished everything.... I saw the sky turn black and I figured the storm was about to come and we were gonna lose power. It was not until we heard this loud roar outside and all the trees were starting to bend from the wind and windows were shaking that I grabbed my birds as fast as I could to hide. Our pool screen was ripping apart and trees were being ripped from the ground. My family was just in shock and could not move they were just staring out the window in fear. By the time some of us hid it moved down my street and demolished all the houses down there. Everything happened so fast. We were definitely a prime example of what NOT to do during a tornado. We got the warnings on our phone a few minutes prior but I do not remember bc I ignored it."
I thought it was a good example of the "warning fatigue" you've mentioned before on this blog.
-Al