National Hurricane Center
Storm surge warnings covered almost the entire west coast of Florida in the early hours of Wednesday morning as “dangerous major hurricane” Milton strengthened on its way to the state, threatening to plunge city districts underwater and violently hurl construction cranes into nearby buildings.
“I can’t stress enough that this is not an ‘if’ event. It’s a ‘when’ event,” Pinellas County Director of Emergency Management Cathie Perkins told a Tuesday evening news conference. “We’re going to get hit, and it’s going to be hard.”
Milton was a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph as of 1 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
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