(NewsNation) — TikToker Morgan Roos updated her fans Thursday morning connected what happened overnight arsenic she rode retired Hurricane Milton from her high-rise flat connected Tampa’s Riverwalk.
“It got dicey,” she said. “I’m truthful grateful and truthful blessed to beryllium OK."
Roos, a caller Tampa resident, recounted spending the nighttime successful the hallway of her flat building.
“I could perceive connected the precocious floors a banging, similar a model had popped. That was, like, getting my anxiousness each high,” she said.
“Then astatine astir 4:30 successful the morning, I hear, like, this immense bang noise? And I tin perceive rushing water. And I hear, like, down the hallway, and I spot h2o droplets. And I look down, and there’s similar f------ h2o coming retired of a light.”
Roos said she past decided to spell backmost wrong her apartment, wherever the windows were intact, but h2o was everywhere. She besides apologized for not taking video of the harm successful existent time.
After getting backmost to slumber aft 5 a.m., past waking up precocious Thursday morning, Roos reflected connected sustaining a small h2o harm and losing her Wi-Fi transportation for a while.
“You cognize similar erstwhile you yet consciousness harmless aft a truly stressful situation? Your assemblage similar kinda collapses? That’s however I felt,” she said.
On Wednesday afternoon, arsenic Milton approached the Florida Gulf Coast, Roos told “NewsNation Now” she was having 2nd thoughts astir staying.
“I deliberation I really, really, truly underestimated this,” she said astatine the time.