‘Not so confident in my decision’: Tampa woman to ride out Milton

TAMPA, Fla. (NewsNation) — Morgan Roos, a Tampa nonmigratory who has decided not to evacuate the country up of Hurricane Milton, tells NewsNation she is having 2nd thoughts astir staying.

Roos, who has 650,000 followers connected TikTok and astir 10,000 connected Instagram, said she’s lone precocious moved to the country from Colorado.

“I americium straight connected the riverfront,” Roos told NewsNation. “I americium lasting successful beforehand of my windows close now, and I would say, possibly 200 feet distant is the Hillsborough River. I was present during Helene. I decided to hold that 1 out, and I watched the h2o rise, but it lone came up connected the Riverwalk. And present I americium not feeling truthful assured successful my decision.”

Roos said she’s not presently looking for a structure for a assortment of reasons.

“Truthfully, no,” she said. “And the crushed I accidental nary is due to the fact that I've got 2 dogs with me; got my ma here. The lone consciousness of assemblage I person present successful Florida are radical who unrecorded successful my building, and they're each hunkering successful together. So we're going to propulsion resources and spell that way.”

Roos said portion she believes the metropolis is prepared and that Gov. Ron DeSantis has been doing a “great job,” she’s acrophobic astir however the assemblage volition fare pursuing back-to-back crises with Helene and Milton.

“The happening that scares maine the astir is conscionable the information that Helene deed 2 weeks ago,” she said. “When I've been driving like, up and down the residential neighborhoods, there's debris stacked similar 8 feet high. I cognize that the politician has been doing a large occupation ... but it does scare me.”

Despite not being a autochthonal Floridian, Roos thinks she’s arsenic prepared arsenic tin beryllium expected.

“I deliberation I really, really, truly underestimated this,” she said. “But I person 4 cases of water. My neighbors told maine they person a clump of flashlights. I person food, I've got a propane tank. I did everything that the net told maine to do. I conscionable didn't get a flashlight successful time.”