ellen teapot 🏳️⚧️Decades of planning and preparation for a direct hit on Tampa Bay, and it’s finally going to happen, and I’m sitting here in Vancouver as useless as a Confederate $3 bill
My level of neurosis over this storm is rising with the projected maximum intensity
Oh, thank G-d, my mom is evacuating to Orlando
Tolls suspended on all routes in Central Florida + Alligator Alley for the duration #HurricaneMilton
At ~15 past the hour, Tampa meteorologist Denis Phillips sternly warns the entire Florida Gulf Coast: “People died in Punta Gorda [from Hurricane Charley], because six hours before landfall, that storm was forecast [on] the exact track of what you’re looking at here” https://www.youtube.com/live/ZTYC8bErKDA #HurricaneMilton
