Western Standard - October 09, 2024


Weather Channel’s 3D Illustration Reveals Hurricane Milton's Massive Storm Surge


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

139.2096

Word count

209

Sentence count

22


Summary

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Storm surge is approaching and it's not going to get any better than this. This is not a good day to be in an evacuation zone. Stay safe everyone. Thank you for being on the alert!

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 So what does that look like? Well, let's show you. Imagine this. Imagine three feet of storm surge right here.
00:00:06.080 Now, if this amount of water catches you by surprise, it's too late to evacuate.
00:00:10.640 Cars are floating around and floating away. There's large objects in here that could knock things down with a battering ram-like force.
00:00:17.780 Now, there's no way, again, to evacuate with this kind of storm surge.
00:00:21.160 But we know there's going to be places with more than three feet.
00:00:24.080 Imagine six feet of storm surge.
00:00:26.460 Now, this completely floods out the first floors of homes and businesses.
00:00:31.820 And the only way to escape that is to move to the higher floor of a building.
00:00:37.180 Now, unfortunately, there are going to be places that get more than six feet of storm surge flooding.
00:00:42.060 Imagine this. Nine feet and even beyond of flooding, of inundation.
00:00:46.680 This is practically not survivable.
00:00:49.360 So please follow the advice of your local officials when they ask you to evacuate.
00:00:54.180 And if you have any questions about what evacuation zone you're in, if you need to go, and or where you need to go, go to floridadisaster.org.
00:01:04.440 And by all means, everybody, please stay safe.
00:01:07.340 Thank you.
00:01:09.600 Thank you.
00:01:09.720 Thank you.