An idiotic couple ignored urgent pleas to evacuate and opted to take selfies by the coastline as Hurricane Milton barreled in.
With the Category 5 storm set to bring widespread destruction to southern Florida, a live stream of the southernmost point of Key West captured the couple’s braindead antics.
Thousands of people have tuned into the stream to watch Milton – described as the ‘storm of the century’ by forecasters – as it rolls in.
The footage later captured a runner, seemingly playing up for the cameras, jumping to the ground and doing a set of push ups while waves crashed over him.
Despite almost six million Floridians being placed under evacuation orders, some also decided to visit Universal Studios resort in Orlando, to make the most of the hours before Milton makes landfall.
An idiotic couple ignored urgent pleas to evacuate and opted to take selfies by the southernmost point of Key West as Hurricane Milton barreled in
As thousands watched a live stream of the area to see Milton roll in, a runner, seemingly playing up for the cameras, jumped to the ground and did a set of push ups while waves crashed over him
Despite urgent warnings from officials to evacuate, some residents were seen making the most of the final hours before Milton hits at Universal Studios in Orlando
As of early Wednesday, Milton was centered around 300 miles southwest of Tampa, with maximum sustained winds of over 160mph.
Landfall is expected late Wednesday or the early hours of Thursday, when it is forecast to bring flash flooding, storm surges of up to 15 feet, and powerful winds that will tear apart homes and rip trees from roots.
Aside from a few moronic residents, webcams of Florida cities in its path show the streets eerily empty as 5.9 million Floridians over 11 counties were under mandatory evacuation orders.
With Milton hours from landfall, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor issued a chilling warning to residents who stayed, cautioning that 15 feet storm surges will be un-survivable.
‘So if you’re in it, basically that’s the coffin that you’re in,’ Castor said.
Members of the Florida Army National Guard check for any remaining residents in nearly-deserted Bradenton Beach, where piles of debris from Hurricane Helene flooding still sits outside damaged homes ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024
Downtown Tampa is seen deserted amid warnings to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton
Meteorologists said that in recent days of tracking the storm they have observed Milton escalating in size and strength dramatically, and say it could double in size by the time it hits.
The National Guard has also been drafted in to help any residents in difficulty carry out desperate eleventh-hour evacuations amid light flooding as the outer edges of the hurricane caused weather conditions to deteriorate this morning.
Doubling down on Mayor Castor’s stark warning, police chief of Holmes Beach William Tokajer told CNN today: ‘If you don’t leave, you’re on your own…
‘Take a pen and write your name and social security number on your leg so that we have a contact if we find you. Because this is not going to end well.’
Milton is set to be the worst hurricane to hit Tampa since 1921. Parts of the area were flooded by Hurricane Helene two weeks ago, with 12 locals dying.
But Helene quickly moved north, where it caused most devastation in North Carolina and Tennessee, flooding valleys and wiping entire towns off the map.
More than 230 were killed by Helene, with its death toll expected to rise.
Milton is expected to cause far more extreme weather – including a fifteen foot wall of water that was shown in a terrifying graphic from The Weather Channel.
Broadcast on The Weather Channel, the brown surge of the flood can be seen rising to almost twice the height of presenter Stephanie Abrams
Residents walk along the pier damaged by Hurricane Milton on the coast of Puerto Progeso, Yucatan State, Mexico, on October 8, 2024
One family attempts to prevent damage to their house by quite literally tying it to the ground ahead of the storm’s arrival
Officials warned that anyone who refuses to leave will be left without help as first responders are not expected to risk their lives attempting rescues at the height of the storm.
‘This is the 11th hour. If you’re in an evacuation zone, the time to get out is now,’ Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister told CNN’s Kasie Hunt on this morning, adding that more than 1,000 rescues were conducted in his county after Hurricane Helene.
‘We only have to look back two weeks ago. We’re still healing from this storm and recovering,’ he said.
