BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WIAT ) — Many people trying to get out of Hurricane Milton’s path are making their way to Alabama. Some are just passing through by car or plane on their way to safety.
Airports in Florida like Tampa and Sarasota do not have any commercial flights incoming or outgoing. Some flights were leaving from other airports like Orlando International Airport in central Florida throughout Tuesday.
Stan Rossetti and his family were enjoying vacation in Orlando when news of Milton came, causing them to find a quicker return flight home.
“Going through TSA was pretty bad, but not as bad as we expected,” Rossetti said. “Want to make sure we get out of there for sure.”
Martha Louise Waters is originally from Birmingham but has been working at Disney World for a year. She said coming home was more so out of an abundance of caution.
“I live in an apartment, and I’m on the fourth floor,” Waters said. “So it’s just hard to know and lots of windows, so it’s just hard to know exactly what’s going to happen. It was a lot of kind of hecticness at stores and everything, of course, preparing for a hurricane.”