All flights from Orlando to Chicago have been canceled as people escape the path of the storm.
Travelers arrived on the final flights out of Orlando overnight. Some say it took all day to catch a flight.
‘We started seeing all of the alerts for the hurricane incoming,” Michael Collins, who arrived at O’Hare from Florida, said. “My mother-in-law, my grandma, everybody was calling us, making sure we were trying to get out of the way
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If not by air, masses of people are gassing up to get out of Milton’s way, by car. But that’s getting tricky. GasBuddy says more than 1,300 stations across Florida are out of fuel and lines at the draining pumps seem eternal.
Even for seasoned Hurricane survivors like, Jennifer and Tom Sullivan, who relocated from Naperville to Clearwater more than a decade ago, this one is different.
With medical staff at Tampa area hospitals reliant on them, the Sullivans cannot leave.