It is a category for Trans Storm AuntStorm Surge Head up to 15 feet and heavy rainfall and devastating winds will make it a lifethreatening event. Milton makes landfall and that is expected tonight. John that we hours of the morning and we are awaiting an update from the White House on that old Government Response and warning people get out now before it is also so late. We lead tonight around 11 00, midnight, early Thursday Morning and has picked up speed so just know they are less than 24 hours out from actually less than 12 hours out. That will happen south of the Eye Wall will likely lead to the most significant Storm Surge. Speak of this will be a storm of historic proportions with wind, water, rain. Sandra all right, guys, hello, welcome and for smith in New York and here we go again. This looks like it could be really bad and some of the worst florida has seen in a century. Spill in the next 1218 hours are critical for the people in the sunshine states. Lived in washington and a highway in collier county, the roads jampacked and very light traffic as the window to evacuate its closing. The shot appears to be frozen but that traffic is typically moving, serra. Sandra they were people trying to get out and the mixed decided to hunker down and in his Home Sarasota Area and we will get an update from him how he and his wife are preparing for the storm. John for first, steve harrigan, as usual, where a live action is going to happen down Tampas Camp that, what do you see down there . John, tampa officials have to be happy with what we are seeing down here very few are no cards On The Road and people eating the Evacuation Orders. Perhaps the biggest difference between the storm and when hit two weeks ago where it hit the last Storm And Hurricane helene a population 6,600 and Population Health Tampa bay where this could hit 3. 3 Million here just of the potential for damage for catastrophic damage much higher at this point. When we talk to people we asked them about evacuations and even the people leaving the scene still say they have a lot to fear. Here is what they had to say. We are worried something to come back to because there was debris on the streets from the people that emptied their houses from the last hurricane that not picked up and you can only pick up so much stuff. That step will be flying all over the place. I dont know why door if we have something to go back to. Im scared and worried my house. Im right on the water at the Storm Surge will be pretty bad down there. So you hear that fear, fear from people leaving and afraid what they might leave and they may have no home to come back to. The national Guard And Florida excels in forces but they will be out and about until the Bid Speed gets below 40 miles an hour. John, back to you. John we heard from the Coast Guard confidant, will not be able to operate until after the hurricane passed by. Anybody staking in an area that will be flooded will be on their own for a long time, steve come on, thank you, sandra. Sandra Sarasota County where the next guest will hunker down with his wife, and jeff, welcome to the program and thank you for coming on. When i look at the model of the hurricane and its path, you are directly you could take a direct hit. Why have you decided to wait this one out . Well, sandra, this is our first Calendar Year of living in the area and we move down here from minnesota where we were veritably blizzard experts. To come down here and experience the three large ones recently with Debbie And Hurricane helene and now milton, what is really, really something to watch. We live in a relatively new home, newer area which helps a lot and we are outside of the evacuees own not mandated to leave. But we thought we would give it a shot. We have done a few things to help success, hopefully. Speed tooth we wish the best for you and i know you are taking precautions. We have a live look at sarasota. Exactly where you are in sarasota is important and you are 15 miles inland but still do to feel dramatic effects from the storm. I know you are taking preparations along with your wife and you were talking to me about putting towels and the windows and you are prepared because you mentioned your home is newer and you have hurricane glass. Tell us a little bit more about how you are preparing for this. So we have stock in our freezer with food. Here to be have two events. We have the event itself, which is the destructive part, high winds, Et Cetera and they may the aftermath event, which can go on for days depending on power, depending on a number of situations. So we have Ice Bursting in our freezer where we fueled up our Shower Tub with Water And Plumbing needs. They have cleared off our lanai deck. We had things out on that. That is all now in the garage. We have got a neighbor who allowed us to utilize their garage for our other car which helped quite a bit as well. So, it has alleviated all of our fears . No, but certainly, i think the homework so to speak we have done should help our chances. Sandra jeff, we have pictures and we showed the cleared off lanai and you send us pictures of that. You have the Golf Cart with the questions for the lanai furniture. We have those precautions. I know you are starting to see the weather affects there. And i know that part of the process of preparing as you have sort of banded together with your neighbors and you know who has what resources and if things did get pretty bad, you know the you will go to for certain things. Lastly tell us a little bit about that. So our neighborhood has got a nice tightknit community. Weve had several conversations in the street, whatever what are you doing and how can we help and really kind of meaning together as a neighborhood to use kind of Best Practices over the years that people have found to help with this type of an event. So, it has really been a group effort. Speed to jeff, i should probably tell the audience we go back many, many years and you are childhood family friends. And praying for you and pulling for you and your wife an entire neighborhood. I know you said some in your neighborhood evacuated and some decided to stay out. You are not in a mandatory Evacuation Order, important to point out that you are in the path of the storm or do we hope you get through this and best of luck to you and thank you for joining us. Speak i thank you, sandra, appreciate it. Speed to buy the mates are you outside right now . Are you getting for strong winds right now . Yes. It looks like its getting a little lighter. It looks like it is quiet right now. Speed to the calm before the storm. Yeah, yeah. Bit anyway. Stated thanks, john. Thank you. All right, john, they are not into mandatory evacuation sounds. But he was making the case earlier he went to minnesota for 26 years and has been through terrible blizzards and terrible weather and he and his wife felt like they wanted to read this one out. John having grown up in canada with plenty of lizards and florida with plenty of hurricanes, i can tell you hurricane is nothing like a blizzard. I remember going back to 1989 hurricane you go in charleston and i talked to some folks who lived in the big houses. These are Houses Hit by Cannon Fire during the Civil War and survived. They said they would have a Hurricane Party. I went and checked within the next Day And Part the wall down by the garage had been pushed and i said how was your Hurricane Party . The worst decision we ever made. We spent all Night Screaming as the storm came through. Word to the wise. Speed there will be some stories, best of luck to jeff and his family. Without powers, nothing the biggest problem is not having drinkable water. These people need help and have lost everything they have like me and a lot of other people. Businesses, houses, everything. Their lives are displaced. You cant get there, it is like an island. My house is there in my car is there. John Mountain Region still caught Cut Off from civilization Hurricane Helene catastrophic wedding at the western part of the st state. In North Carolina, how is the Cleanup Recovery Effort going . Well, john, it will be a long time until homes and businesses get back to normal if they can even be recovered. Behind me is an Antique Shop open for 30 years here in banner elk. The manager tells us they lost hundreds of thousands of Dollars Worth of the intakes that cant be replaced. From Higher Grounds and the neighbor, she actually watched the Flight Floodwaters wipe out the store appeared to speak of, chairs, all of these different pieces, it was gutwrenching to watch it. There are no words i have to describe that feeling. Just watching Livelihood Float down the road. This is a video on the birth of the store when the full force of Hurricane Helene came to the town and a half of the inventory is gone, 17, 18, 19 centerpieces and some of the pizzas were massive which really goes to show the strengths of the floodwaters that came through. This is probably our best peace and most valuable piece, and it has been crushed. Without the shop would wear off but it hasnt. An immense amount of grief, sadness, but there is hope. There really is hope. They are trying to salvage as much inventory as much but they dont expect to be open for at least six months. John and sandra, this is unfortunately countless businesses are dealing with here. Back to you. 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Switch to reliable Comcast Business internet with security and get started for 49. 99 a month. Plus ask how to get up to a 500 Prepaid Card. Call Today Sandra forecasters are winning at dead delay Storm Surge as Hurricane Milton close is an on floridas west coast. This is the same and the storm will make landfall overnight and we will see that hurricane as it moves and ran across florida. You can see that i have ever again targeting sarasota where we just talk to some folks who decided to hunker down and some of the nonmandatory evacuation sounds. But it will take a direct hit it looks like by looking at the path. We will take a walk in the Fox Weather Center and get an update from meteorologist jane. The very latest. Joined the coverage of Fox Weather. They are on the big screen and can give us an idea of the path of the storm right now and in a change is the last few minutes so, on in here. The last 24 hours. Sandra do you mind if we join your broadcast . You have the technology to tell us what is happening right now. We got the advisory of the top of the hour this has brandnew information breaking down. Not a big change but the Storm Headline is that it is growing. That is the biggest problem because more people will be feeling peace impacts. Still cat 4 wins 100 miles an hour and ever so slightly 16 miles to the northeast. It is sitting 150 miles or so from tampa off to the southwest. We will watch this really closely. But do you see these two lines here . You have the core of the storm and the second band. Sandra yes. That is what is starting to drive the wobbles. That is so important in the hours leading up to landfall and ultimately what this thing is going to go sbc it approach the shore. I mean, milton is here and we feel the impacts 60 Tornado Warning so far today. Sandra for example right now, we are talking Sarasota Area where we know obviously they have been under preparations and evacuated the coastal areas most of them if i should say not all of them. The possibilities of the storm moving to the north or the south, where is your next prediction if this starts to change directions and heads to the coast . What is the likely which direction should go . Tampa bay is still in the game. Bradenton into sarasota is the area we are watching for maybe seeing the biggest surge. But at this point in time, variability there that it is how comfortable even a meteorologist to watch as that is pushing in. At the core of this is so high up on north side. So even if it makes landfall just to the south of the impact, they will be in the core of some of the worst of the winds and that rain that will continue to push and, might i add in the dark of night. Speed to 125 miles an hour and what to expect as far as time now think this makes Landfall Tonight . Those wobbles will be key expecting a little