Hurricane Milton strengthened into a Category 5 storm on Monday, The storm intensified so rapidly because waters in the Gulf of Mexico are record hot. With all of this going on locals in almost every city within the area of Florida is being urged to evacuate in preparation. While this happens Florida is already picking up the pieces from hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene came ashore Sept. 26 as a Category 4 hurricane, and caused great destruction as it moved northward from Florida, sweeping homes away, destroying roads and breaking almost all electricity and cell phone services.
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XFM news spoke to a local student in Florida by the name of Tarik. The man moved to Florida two years ago to start a new life in America But is now terrified.
“surrounding places have like the roofs, stuff off of the roofs, were like knocked off and other stuff, we’ve had fences go down as I said earlier, and I have definitely seen some people have like stuff go through their cars or like two through windows and stuff like that.”
Tarik was also he knows someone that was more effected then he was. ” a buddy of mine who lives in residence at Jacksonville university was like in residence when it all happened, the whole building got flooded, and I don’t even know if classes where continued or stopped but I imagine they stopped them.”
For more immediate updates please visit https://www.floridadisaster.org/weather/. The website offers daily updates about both hurricanes.
