Expats unable to sleep through storm kept in touch during Wednesday night as Milton battered US state
Irish expats living in Florida hardly slept throughout Wednesday night, with some considering themselves fortunate to be alive as Hurricane Milton, described as potentially “the worst storm to hit Florida in over a century”, carved its way across the state.
Despite being situated within Hernando County, which is under a mandatory evacuation order, the 48-year-old nurse, her partner Mike and their dog Spencer stayed in their home in Brooksville, a city on the west coast just north of Tampa as it was “too late” to leave before the storm. ‘An important intervention’: Senior Kinahan figure Sean McGovern arrested in Dubai over Hutch feud murderHer power went off at about 10.30pm on Wednesday, and she doesn’t expect it to return for days if not weeks. “I’m relieved to wake up this morning, there’s no damage to the house and we can get a generator. I’m just glad there was no loss of life in this neighbourhood. The personal possessions can all be replaced but human life can’t,” she said.
“Some of the neighbours lost roofs, some of them lost carports and some of them have trees that fell on to their houses, so we’re lucky,” she said, counting about 12 neighbours who had received such damage.
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