Some families evacuating Florida because of Hurricane Milton are passing through Cumberland County along I-95.
The impact of Hurricane Milton can already be seen in the Fayetteville area, as the manager of several hotels by I-95 report bookings are up as much as 40 percent higher than this time last year with people evacuating Florida. Some families ABC11 spoke with at the rest area nearby said they’ve been on the road battling traffic since Tuesday.
Some evacuating from Florida said their communities were already still recuperating from 2022’s Hurricane Ian, so the back-to-back storms ( Helene and now Milton) have really taken a toll.
“We just kind of have never really been hit that bad before and Helene was very…it shook us,” Juleen Anderson said.
Anderson and her two kids are taking refuge at her boyfriend’s home in Raleigh, so she’s happy to have safe place to stay. But she worries about the impact this is having on her children.
“It’s scary,” Anderson said. “It’s scary. Climate change is real and you know, growing up in that area I don’t remember there being as many hurricanes and now my kids, they have hurricane days and it’s like a whole thing.”