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Live updates: Hurricane Milton strengthens into a Category 4 as Florida prepares for evacuations

Hurricane Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane Monday on a path toward Florida population centers including Tampa and Orlando, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for potential mass evacuations less than two weeks after a catastrophic Hurricane Helene swamped the coastline.

Officials said they are preparing for the largest evacuation since Hurricane Irma in 2017 when about 7 million Floridians left their homes.

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Update
AP - Hurricane Milton is forecast to become a Category 5 and is taking aim at Florida
- Winds over 160 mph.
  Possible silver lining: Mar-a-Lago is right in its path.
  
  Please don't lie to me.
  
  Anyone watching to see if Trump moves any more classified documents out of there before the storm hits?
- Officially 5 now
- I looked few other path prediction and whatnot. Seems like most of them got hurricanes at CAT3 when it hit the coast. It just show CAT4/5 during the middle of the gulf. I don't know much about hurricanes but maybe it's just sensational headline?
  
  Probably a CAT 4 or strong CAT 3 at landfall.
  Update:
  Well fuck...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that it was imperative that messes from Helene be cleared ahead of Milton’s arrival so they don’t become dangerous flying projectiles. More than 300 vehicles picked up debris Sunday but encountered a locked landfill gate when they tried to drop it off. State troopers used a rope tied to a pickup truck and busted it open, DeSantis said.
“We don’t have time for bureaucracy and red tape,” DeSantis said. “We have to get the job done.”
Interesting to see the Governor and State Troopers breaking into a landfill of all places, trying to get debris in a central location I guess. Although unless they also have someone in this previously locked landfill burying or securing in some other manner all this debit, then it's just putting it all in one place you hope the hurricane doesn't hit?
Edit - Anyone in Florida and the surrounding areas stay safe! Evacuate if you can.
- If only there was a government official that could have coordinated with the landfill
  
  Government waste management is socialism.
  
  Why use a nudge when you can have an agenda and a sledgehammer.
- Should be arrested for vandalism and trespassing.
- Wait, DeSantis is using his government effectively?
  
  Seems an effective government would have organized taking this stuff to a landfill that was operating properly and would correctly store the debris.
  Sounds like he sent trucks to a non operating landfill, then decided “landfills are just big fields you dump stuff right? It can’t possibly be more complicated than that”
  Here’s a video about all the actual engineering that goes into proper waste management. Maybe the people that operated that landfill had roped it off because they knew no one would be there to correctly manage debris drop off
  https://youtu.be/HRx_dZawN44?si=cq-0sgZ6FO9CzTFe
  
  By committing crimes?
“This terrible tragedy is because of the gays” - Pat Robertson
Also climate change is a hoax. - probably also Pat Robertson although at least that fucker’s already dead.
- There are a whole trump load of Magats that infested that area of Florida in recent years. If we’re relying on Pat as our local weatherman, you would have thought the hurricane would approach further south.
  Same thing up in those Western NC mountains. Asheville may be a cesspool of sin, but everything around it is a sea of red.
  All schadenfreude aside, this whole hurricane season really really sucks. I hold a lot of sympathy and empathy for those just trying to live their lives. We as a collective community are not doing enough fast enough and we need better leadership in place that will bite the bullet here and make the hard political decisions that need to be made.
  
  I hold a lot of sympathy and empathy for those just trying to live their lives. We as a collective community are not doing enough fast enough and we need better leadership in place that will bite the bullet here and make the hard political decisions that need to be made.
  Forty years and counting.
  
  Unfortunately, that political will power, can't exist when half the population is actively trying to burn it down.
From the article, in case anyone is interested in current timing or trajectory.
Its center could come ashore Wednesday in the Tampa Bay area, and it could remain a hurricane as it moves across central Florida toward the Atlantic Ocean.
If Florida makes it ILLEGAL to Mention Hurricane Milton then Problem SOLVED!
It has been a tough two weeks for Florida.

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