PUNTA GORDA — Area residents are looking at their options when it comes to whether they will evacuate or stay as Hurricane Milton threatens the region this week.
Delayed flights at Punta Gorda Airport were making some people a bit more concerned.
Angie Williamson was smoking a cigarette and on hold with a car rental company after she found her flight to Columbus, Ohio had been delayed.
She worried it would be cancelled.
“I don’t want to stay here,” she said. “I’m looking at renting a car to drive home.”
Venice resident Danny Roberts was walking his mother into the airport for her preplanned visit to Cincinnati. Roberts and his girlfriend, Jonnie Greene, were likely going to stay at their home.
“It is what it is,” Roberts said.
He said the home withstood Hurricane Ian two years ago.
Jonnie Greene said she was concerned about Hurricane Milton.
“I don’t want anyone to get any damage,” Greene said.
Rena Balzer, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, was awaiting her flight home. It was being delayed four hours. She and her sister, Tammy Duncan, and their family have Hurricane Ian experiences as well.