Milton has a ‘really bad feel to it,’ says Florida man riding out storm

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla., (NewsNation) — A Pinellas County antheral tells NewsNation that portion he’s lived successful Florida for galore years, Hurricane Milton has a peculiarly ominous feeling astir it.

“We're starting to get immoderate of the outer bands,” said Harry Berg, a section nonmigratory and uncle of NewsNation meteorologist Max Tsaparis. “This tempest has got a truly atrocious consciousness to it — and I've been present for galore years.”

Berg said his determination not to evacuate the country doesn’t mean helium isn’t taking the tempest seriously. But it’s portion of “being a Floridian.”

“You person to hole for this. What we're getting acceptable to look is thing that we've ne'er seen before, the likes of this … to marque a agelong communicative short, you conscionable person to marque definite you're repaired.”

Berg said his superior interest astatine the infinitesimal is wind. He added that if conditions go excessively unsafe by Wednesday day they volition “seek shelter.”

“We person hurricane-proof windows, we’re boarded up correctly, we person capable rations, we person generators, we person everything,” helium said.

The National Hurricane Center has predicted Milton volition apt weaken, but stay a large hurricane erstwhile it makes landfall precocious Wednesday oregon aboriginal Thursday.