Some of the predictions are saying that Pinellas County, to the south of us, the entire county is going to be under water,
Be in the know about your evacuation route,
This is just going to exacerbate that as well,
Since 1921, there's been a lot of changes to the Tampa Bay area, including a lot more people, a lot more infrastructure that can be impacted compared to what was around back then, so there's that impact,
Most of us haven't seen that in this area,
The airport is in a mandatory evacuation zone and is not a public shelter,
The airport is not closed and will remain open to accept emergency/aid and relief flights as necessary,
We will resume full operations after an assessment of track conditions once the storm has passed,
We don’t have a house, but we have this house,
If we go on holidays to the beaches in October, you are exposed to hurricane risk,
We've exhausted ourselves the last three days cleaning everything up. But we're about to get far worse is what we're hearing, and we believe it,
There’s more of a panic in the neighbourhood,
We had a lot of debris left from Hurricane Helene on Florida's Gulf Coast. That creates a huge hazard if you have a major hurricane hit in that area,
It's kind of like getting punched in the face twice,
It’s crazy, and it’s about to get worse,
Tomorrow we’re going to make the drive to Orlando,
There's not much point sandbagging our properties on the Barrier Islands, because that's not going to be able to stop the storm surge at all,
I have traveled throughout my district in recent days and I've witnessed the devastation that my constituents have endured as a result of Hurricane Helene. It is unfathomable that before these residents have even begun to rebuild that we are having to prepare for another potentially catastrophic hurricane,
My constituents in Pinellas County depend on Congress to take swift and decisive action in the wake of this unprecedented disaster caused by Hurricane Helene,
This is false. No money is being diverted from disaster response needs. FEMA's disaster response efforts and individual assistance is funded through the Disaster Relief Fund, which is a dedicated fund for disaster efforts. Disaster Relief Fund money has not been diverted to other, non-disaster related efforts,