We want to show you a close up view of Hurricane Milton. This powerful video is coming from the hurricane hunters who flew into the storm it’s impressive footage. Gives you a glimpse of what’s happening to this community. Have Dame is Right followed by nervous laughter is very powerful video. Imagine the power of those winds and the rain that’s falling on that community that has already been devastated by the hurricane. We really want to show you the perspective of someone who is not close to Treasure Island. Who is in Sarasota about an hour away but is still concerned about the hurricane’s impacts and this is Erica Royal with that’s Sarasota County Commissioner Eric. What is your main concern about Hurricane Milton because you’re hearing it’s flirting with category five winds.
Media Reporter said I’m in a state of emergency my biggest concern right now is that all the people in town news are not going to evacuate that’s my concern. They need to eat this morning because this is a hundred year storm. Unprecedented if you got to Debbie if you survived this and this is like nothing we’ve ever faced before and it’s just passing right through us. I wonder what you would say to residents like some of the folks that are in the building where we’re standing, these folks I give them a moment ago they didn’t want to come on camera but they were considering the idea of ​​potentially riding out the storm here. What would you say to them at this time now we’re worried about two o’clock in the afternoon the day before the storm hits, what’s your message to them.
I’ll quote what I told a close family friend of mine who’s writing this in his house. A ride in the waterfront as it comes in. As said if you’re going to ignore all the experts in every single evacuation order, get a Sharpie. Write your name on your hand so we can identify your body. Morbid alert at least I’m surprised sir we’ve seen piles of trash in Pinellas County, certainly other parts of the west coast of the Gulf Coast of Florida have seen this problem as well, debris left over from hurricane alley and can you give us an update on the situation in Sarasota it sounds like you’re not directly affected by hurricane A lean, but I know there were problems there. Because I have relatives in that area. Checked my email, just two seconds ago and heard that the problem here is our team in our crews are working around the clock in the city and working with the county or we at least have contractors that are willing to go out to the barrier islands that are going to be the most affected.
Now there are only government employees. At some point we’re going to have to get back to that we’re taking into consideration the safety of our employees so right now it’s only us, virtually no contractors are willing to send and their employees out of the barrier islands. We’ve asked for the help of our National Guard as much as we can, they’re stupid sons of bitches. Some of the troops that are going to help and are on standby, but it’s a tough situation, with limited resources right now all we can do is hope for the best, prepare for the worse. Absolutely and we’re very appreciative of the work that those emergency teams do, the last thing you would want to do is unnecessarily put them at risk Erica, I have one more question before we go, because I’m talking to people in the community today it’s important to not only deal with two storms. How did Milton transform in a span of two weeks, you had a hurricane, it wasn’t even a hurricane, it was a tropical storm at one point.