"Do not take your foot off the gas on this debris mission."
Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene pushed the Gulf of Mexico into tens of thousands of living rooms along Florida’s west coast, a new storm is threatening a repeat. But this time, streets and yards and parks are filled with all of the detritus scraped from those flooded homes — fridges, cabinets, bookcases, drywall and lamps.
All of those belongings could become projectiles in the expected Category 3 winds of Hurricane Milton, which is likely to cross the state sometime Wednesday. The state and local governments are racing to clean up as much as they can before the winds start picking up.
“What’s going to happen with that debris? It’s going to increase the damage dramatically,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a Sunday morning press conference. “This is all hands on deck to get that debris where it needs to be.”
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