Hurricane Milton: ‘There’s going to be loss of life’ – Florida reporter
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A local journalist hunkered down in Florida's Tampa Bay said he's never seen anything like Hurricane Milton, and was "scared for the aftermath".
Kirby Wilson, a reporter at Tampa Bay Times, had remained in the area and said he and his family were doing OK so far.
It was going to be tough "for the foreseeable future," he said, "but we're hanging in".
Many people in the area had not been ordered to evacuate.
Tampa Bay Times reporter Kirby Wilson
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"A lot of it is perfectly safe from the kind of floodwater we're expecting... I know a lot of people have an image of Florida as a state that will one day be entirely submerged, but it does take a lot of water to overcome some of even the mild high points.
"I decided ...
