I hope all Floridians are seeking higher ground -- in Pennsylvania. And declaring themselves residents there, and voting early and often.

Hey, Democrats have established the "rule" that if you just claim you're not sure if you're staying or not, you're a resident. That's what they say for college students in swing states who really live permanently in their home states, right?

The National Weather Service warned residents to shelter-in-place as conditions deteriorated dramatically Wednesday afternoon and Hurricane Milton roared toward Florida's beleaguered west coast.

Tropical-storm force winds, flooding rains and tornadoes were spreading inland as the fierce hurricane was just hours from making landfall. Milton's sustained winds tapered off from 145 mph to 130 mph -- just high enough to remain a Category 4 hurricane 00 but the storm has grown in size, making its potential damage more widespread.

If we could just get that down to a Category 3...

Milton's tropical-storm-force winds now extend out to 250 miles.

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"Historic, catastrophic, life-threatening -- all those words summarize the situation," said Austen Flannery, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Tampa.

The hurricane is spawning tornadoes. Seven so far.

Tornadic supercells -- dangerous, rotating thunderstorms that can produce tornadoes -- were beginning to sweep across the Florida peninsula, the update said. More than 12 million people were under tornado warnings, and the National Weather Service in Miami said on social media it had "up to 4 visually confirmed tornadoes today," with unofficial reports of others.

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Tampa, with a metropolitan area that is home to over 3 million people, has not had a direct hit by a major hurricane in more than 100 years. Storm surge from Milton could drive water levels up to 12 feet above ground, the hurricane center said.

I hope that's alarmism based on projections from when Milton was Cat 5.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking at a briefing Wednesday, said the state is prepared. Hundreds of search and rescue personnel and 180 high-water vehicles have been embedded in likely storm impact sites, he said. Over 6,000 state National Guard members and 3,000 more from other states are at the ready, along with 50,000 linemen who will work on restoring power after the storm.

I saw it reported that that is the greatest pre-mustering of linesmen in history.

I hope that rat DeSantis finally took the phone call from Noted Hurricane and Border Expert Kamala Harris. Her wise counsel and zero executive ability (or responsibility) will be critical to the state weathering this storm.

Below, Kamala Harris showed how very informed and very inebriated she is most afternoons:

Latrine John-Pissoir had a meltdown when confronted with the F A C T that Biden claims his kingly powers to divert monies as he whims it can send US money to Lebanon "relief" efforts without Congressional authority, but for some reason he must have Congress approve additional funds for North Carolina and Florida.

She says this is, you guessed it, "dangerous misinformation," though she sputters and spits when asked in what way it's wrong. She says "It's wrong the way you're saying it."

I think we have a future Candidate of Joy, here!

By the way: FEMA is hoarding $73 billion in unspent money appropriated to pay for past disasters. They're still sitting on an $8 billion slush fund to pay for Hurricane Sandy, which struck... 12 years ago in 2012.

But Biden can't free up any of those funds, hoarded like Smaug with a government expense account.

Saying that all monies needed to pay off Chris Christie for soft-endorsing Obama in 2012 were already spent on disaster relief and that the remainder is just being hoarded by government bureaucrats who get off on having huge sums of money under their control is just more Dangerous Misinformation, Bigots!