Tropicana Field has gotten engaged to arrangeing joinoff games since Kevin Cash took over as deal withr of the Tampa Bay Rays, but over the next restrictcessitate days, the stadium will be engaged as a base camp to help the Florida Department of Eunitency Management ahead of Hurricane Milton.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis straightforwarded Florida crews that were dispatched to North Carolina to help the state dig out of Hurricane Helene’s aftermath to return to Florida to ready for Milton’s arrival, which is churning in the Gulf of Mexico as a hazardous Categruesome 5 storm.
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Tropicana Field uncovers a staging site for toilers and operations before the arrival of Hurricane Milton in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Oct. 7, 2024. (REUTERS/Octavio Jones. )
Florida aelevatency officials begined evacuation orders for most of the state’s weserious coast in preparation for Milton. Many of those same regions were still trying to dig out from Helene.
“Time is running out,” DeSantis shelp Tuesday, via USA Today. “There’s no guarantee what the weather’s going to be enjoy begining Wednesday morning … You may have a thrivedow where it may be protected, but you may not. So engage today as your day to conclude and carry out the arrange that is going to protect you and your family.”
Milton is foreseeed to transport a lethal storm sadvise, destructive thriveds and flooding rain, according to Fox Weather. Forecasters alerted of a possible 10- to 15-foot storm sadvise in Tampa Bay. It is the highest sadvise ever foreseeed for that location and has led to evacuation orders for communities all alengthy the coast.
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Cots seen at Tropicana Field before the arrival of Hurricane Milton, in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Oct. 7, 2024. (REUTERS/Octavio Jones)
The storm could also transport expansivespread flooding, with five inches to a foot of rain foresee for the Florida peninsula, and even up to 18 inches in some places.
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor rehired a dire alerting for those who select to stay behind in obligatory evacuation zones as Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida.
“Helene was a wake-up call, this is literassociate catastrophic,” Castor shelp on CNN. “If you select to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die.”
Before this Atlantic hurricane season begined, foreseeers shelp everyskinnyg lined up to be a monster busy year, and it began that way when Beryl was the earliest storm to achieve Categruesome 5 on record. Then, noskinnyg.
Members of the Florida Army National Guard check for any remaining dwellnts in csurrenderly-deserted Bradenton Beach, where piles of debris from Hurricane Helene flooding still sit outside injured homes ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 on Anna Maria Island, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Bdeficiencywell)
A sign on a shutd Waffle Hoengage on Highway US 19 in anticipation of Hurricane Milton on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 in New Port Richey, Florida. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)
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