I was asked to make a Milton megathread, so that is what I am doing. I’m going to be somewhat busy this evening, so I don’t think I’ll be able to quickly or easily update the thread with new information, but here are some resources:

Rotating live feed of multiple Tampa Bay webcams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWisr5zg3so

Higher resolution Naples pier feed: https://naplespanorama.org/

Live amateur storm chaser coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-V_YnmER0Y

WFLA News 8, St. Petersburg, FL’s live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WXtB4zjhME

NOAA Milton resources: https://www.noaa.gov/milton

National Hurricane Center: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml

FEMA’s Hurricane Milton page: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/current/hurricane-milton

FEMA hurricane safety information: https://www.ready.gov/hurricanes#before

Florida government updates on Milton: https://www.floridadisaster.org/disaster-updates/Hurricanemilton/

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Milton page - https://www.saj.usace.army.mil/Missions/Emergency-Operations/Hurricane-Milton/

If anyone has any others to add within the next two or three hours of this posting (3:18 pm EST, Wednesday October 9), I’ll be able to add them.

  • Subtracty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Were there no buses available to take them to other facilities? I guess they would argue that there is no way to securely transfer that many people that quickly. I wonder if there is an evacuation protocal requirement by the state that the prisons are not complying with, or if this was always the plan?

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      3 months ago

      My personal cynical take? It’d cost too much money and the for profit prisons didn’t want to pay it.

      I’m sure they’ll spin some bs about security but prisoner transfers happen all the time and people’s lives are on the line.