The Tropical Storm Milton that is heading towards the state of Florida, became a category 1 hurricane (of 5), announced the United States Hurricane Center (NHC).
According to the NHC, Milton intensified this Sunday and was moving through the Gulf of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of about 130 kilometers per hour.
The hurricane is expected to strengthen further into a “major magnitude” one, the US agency warned, according to which Milton should make landfall in the middle of next week on the west coast of the state of Florida, an already devastated region. for the passage of Hurricane Helene a few days ago.
Deanne Criswell, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)told ABC’s “This Week” that federal authorities were “absolutely prepared” to deal with the consequences of the new storm.
The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantisthe number of counties declared in state of emergency before the storm.
Helene stormed the Florida coast as a Category 4 storm on September 26 and left a path of destruction inland to the Appalachian Mountains, bringing torrential rains and flash flooding to remote cities in states such as North Carolina.
The storm caused more than 220 deaths, making it the deadliest natural disaster to hit the country since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And the death toll continues to rise.
Rescuers continue working to find survivors and bring electricity and clean water to mountain communities isolated by the devastation.
But that effort has been hit by a wave of false information and conspiracy theories, including the Republican presidential candidate’s claim donald trump that his Democratic rival for the White House, the current vice president Kamala Harrishas misappropriated aid funds and redirected them toward migrants.
