Sarasota emergency chief tells residents in Hurricane Milton's direct path: 'The time to act is now'

Sarasota County Emergency Management Chief Sandra Tapfumaneyi joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the current evacuation orders in the county and Hurricane Milton's potential impact.

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[reecom]

I knew a couple of guys who evacuated their families, while they bordered up their homes. They knew that they would be the tail-end of the evacuation crowd and wouldn’t have time to reunite with their families or find any motel rooms, so they rented a U-Haul truck and packed their sleeping bags in the truck and drove as far out of the rainfall and slept in the U-Haul truck at a Walmart super mart parking lot that was open 24/7.

[Underdog-]

I’m in zone e in Sarasota at Ramblewood Circle villa condos, please pray for all of us🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[marjorie]

All the lanes on the express ways outbound must be opened, or people won't be going far.

[reecom]

With that amount of traffic, most of the hotels and motels outside of the hurricane landfall will be booked. Unless you have relatives, you’ll be either sleeping in your vehicles in a parking lot or on a cot in a large arena with a hundred other people.

[thelaxman]

This is so sad for these people. But why does Trump still make fun of climate change if this is not a prime example?