South Florida may not be getting a direct hit from Hurricane Milton, but nerves here are on edge nonetheless.
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis blames it on PTSD from all the storms that have come before.
“We are not going to get the brunt of this hurricane — we’re going to get the outer edges,” he told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Tuesday. “But some people are panicking from PTSD. The weather service has not been kind to us. On two occasions they predicted mild rainstorms and instead we got 1,000-year rainstorms.”
From Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach and beyond, local officials warned residents to take this storm seriously, whether it’s a Category 5 or not .
Broward County Administrator Monica Cepero referred to the latest storm bearing down on Florida as an “ugly monster” during a meeting Tuesday.
While no storm surge is projected to threaten the tri-county area, all three counties have declared a state of emergency in advance of the storm.
South Florida could see tropical-storm-force winds as soon as 8 p.m. Wednesday, Cepero warned county commissioners.