Hurricane Milton - A Category 5 Disaster in the Gulf
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Hurricane Milton strengthened into one of the strongest Category 5 hurricanes in recorded history at a record pace, and while it did weaken to a Cat 3 at landfall in Florida, the impacts were still enormous. Watch as our chase group dives into the center of the storm in this chase documentary.
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It's always a good day when Max Olson posts
Not as good as a TRX post but I’ll take it 🫡
The tornado outbreak pre-Milton was so crazy, I was flipping between traffic cams like a crazy person all day 😂
The tornado outbreak was hella crazy and all it kept doing was creepily creeping towards where I’m at 💀😅 I remember being at work closing up when we had the first wave, thankfully no tornadoes
Sarasota Florida here... it was an experience hard to put into words! First time actually right in the eye of the hurricane, which was surreal. I evacuated further inland out of the zones. Thankful to God that damages to homes were mostly minimal, other than the barrier islands/keys which were heartbreakingly washed over by both Helene and then Milton. Parts of Sarasota were still trying to recover from flooding from Debby. It was a wild few weeks for sure!
Very happy to hear you had minimal damages, definitely a wild few weeks!
did anyone get their house covered through insurance and how much was it ?
@@NkenKenY Sorry I can't help you with that question, I rent.
@ who can? can you tell me who actually had to pay and did they rebuild damage homes?
As a Sarasota/St. Pete resident, this storm was genuinely the scariest storm I’ve seen in my 20 years. It formed so fast that getting to Miami where we’d evacuated took 8 hours (usually a 4 hour drive), it was so terrifying. As someone obsessed with storms I was following it so intensely. With Helene and then immediately Milton, it was so much debris. Homes, work environments, and even a few schools in St. Pete were completely desecrated, it was terrifying. Thank you for covering this - this past storm is one of the biggest reasons my partner and I decided to move out of FL after college. My heart goes out to everyone who lost something this hurricane season ❤
I was watching the updates on the storm. It was scary. My friend was in the path of it. She thankfully survived. Best wishes to those who lost people during this ❤
So glad she is okay, it was a scary year to live in Florida!
I’m so thankful that I live in the north central area of FL because we’ve been extremely fortunate with these last few hurricane seasons. Unfortunately, the intensity of these two storms alone was enough to make a lot of insurance companies pull the plug on Florida in terms of home insurance.
Tampa here, while the major utilities and clean up was practically finished in a week. We are still cleaning up storm damage and debris. I have a storm damaged tree that the city is forcing me to remove out of pocket before the 5th of March, meanwhile we are still getting denied on FEMA claims as well as a slew of problems.
I’ve been though a few hurricanes before Milton but after this I’m not staying for another strong storm
Ive been in Florida my entire life. This hurricane was probably the scariest for me, even though im in central Florida. Branches from my tree went through my roof and my neighbors around 9 pm before things even got super bad. Thanks for the video! ❤
Sarasota/Bradenton here. This storm was *incredibly* powerful! I'm thankful to live in a newly constructed home (with steel storm shutters) alongside good friends, but even then we lost power for over 24 hrs.
My mom's house is older, and thank goodness their stove and heater is gas, because they were out of power for over a *week*!
The roads were covered in power lines for weeks, most traffic lights down here are still jerry-rigged from being repaired after the storm, and i can't tell you how many road signs are still bent over at a near 90 degree angle from the intense winds, or were straight up snapped off and disappeared into the wind & hopefully not into any one's home or any animals.
Thank you for helping to cover the aftermath that thousands are still dealing with 🙏great docu!
Bradenton, Florida here
I actually evacuated to Georgia where I had someone I know of got hit (slightly) from Helene. My father stayed behind and he told me word for word: “I could hear the roof making noise like crazy, like as if it could’ve been blown off but thankfully didn’t. The dog and cat we have also were thankfully calm but definitely was watching the roof in the living room the whole time.
The only “damage” my house suffered was a section of fence in the backyard that fell down and the little white boards in the middle spread apart.
I was thankful to God that day we were spared but my heart goes out to anyone from Helene and Milton who lost their homes or their lives from the storm. Definitely more powerful than Irma and Ian.
Thanks!
I was born in 1995 and Hurricane Milton was the most.. enlightened and sanctified thing I’ve ever gone through. I was introduced to these bad boys in 2004 when we got hit back to back and it went on to 2005, 2016, 2017, etc but Milton was it. Tampa finally experienced hurricane force winds. It was a blessing
I grew up in Pinellas County and currently live in inland Pasco, and I can tell you that in my 40 years on this planet, Milton was the hurricane that genuinely scared me. Here in Wesley Chapel we got winds upwards of 100mph, and we were on the north side of this beastie. Several structures here in town were destroyed, and we are nowhere near the coastline. This thing was a monster, and I really hope we don't see another like it any time soon!
yo this video was FIRE🙏 i wanted a video EXACTLY LIKE THIS ONE because im doing not only studies on milton, but on the experience and tornadoes.. happy you made it out alive🔥 thanks for the banger video
Bravo Max - I live here in Venice, Florida (Sarasota County) - I've been through the eyewall of Ian, and now Milton. Milton was definitely an experience. One that us in the Greater Tampa Bay area won't soon forget. I work with HurricaneTrack, and while we were deploying Mark's equipment here in Sarasota County amidst the debris from Helene... left me without words. So strange seeing all y'alls footage from my town - I love chasing as much as the next guy, but as every chaser knows, when it's your town, the game changes.
It is all fun and games until the sting jet ;)
As a Tampa/Brandon resident, this was the worst Hurricane we had in over 20 years. I've been here my entire life and Milton was the first time I saw 100 year old giant oak trees pulled up and laying in the streets, every fence whether it was wood or brick was torn apart, stop signs pulled out laying on the ground, street signs either missing or the paint is so screwed up that you can't read them anymore, so many streets and parking lots flooded, traffic lights broken or thrown onto the street and power lines all over the place. Even my mom's roof siding got torn off and was in our backyard. And the sounds were the scariest part. It was 11 or 12pm and it went from a giant loud howling and would turn into the loudest whistle I ever heard, and it would constantly go back and forth from howling to whistling while I heard the ceiling creaking. Defiantly the most nerve-racking night I ever had during a hurricane.
And what sucks the most is that the federal government just doesn't care. Tampa/Brandon is still trashed and broken up and President Biden would rather help other countries than his own citizens that depend on more than the city government for natural disaster relief. Then the FEMA skipping people because of who we voted for was extra salt in the wound. I guess a dead body and their destroyed house and family deserved what came to them if they voted for Trump? If there was any event in my life that changed how I see how our country chooses its priorities, it was Milton.
Excellent as always :)
I love watching your amazing videos as I'm really interested in tornadoes and hurricanes
@@shanenickisson Thank you so much!
We rode out the storm in Tampa. It was one of the scariest day/night of my life - mostly the uncertainty of how bad things were going to get . I just want to say that my neighbors, every single person, was an absolute champion both before and after the storm. We helped each other get ready, we were checking in on each other during the worst parts, and we were all out together cleaning up the next day. One neighbor even fed us all.
I gotta say, in the 19 years I've lived in Florida, this is the first hurricane that really scared me.
Wow! Thanks for another exciting and thoughtful video Max!!
Thank you ❤
I knew Milton was coming from the time it was in the Western Gulf. I been througa lot of storms. I am just never there. I evacuate and come back and hope for the best. Milton was rough in Tampa but we escaped the worst of it. This was a great video on the Reality of Milton. Thank you Max.
Hi! Love your stuff! Ty for following your passion, very inspiring. TY for keeping car insurance more fair! Lucky you can enjoy your job & passion :)
Really appreciate your kind words and support, means a lot!
Another excellent video, Max. I really enjoy your posts. We here in NW SC are still shrugging off the effects of Helene, amazingly!
Milton was almost a direct hit but dodged us so suddenly. terrifying and I wish all Floridian s n others the best.❤
Great Job ,Max !
As always, your videos and chase skills are the best!
as an east central floridian, i can say with confidence that the hurricane parties were sick asf.
Watching this from the UK just days before we get storm Eowyn
This proves that Floridians would be friendly
This is a very good documentary. It really captures the essence of Hurricane Milton. I do suggest mixing the audio better since the music often overpowers your narration. Still, really good footage.
North central fl here, this was very intense even all the way over here.. before the storm was really anywhere near us, we had 3 different tornado warnings.. once the sun set and it got worse, we had 110mph winds, so so so many trees came down, I was standing by our homes front door when I heard a loud cracking sound, and half of the tree directly in front of our house fell, missed the house by literally an inch, tore a single shingle off. I’ve lived in this area my whole life, and this was the most intense that I can remember, aside from the 04 hurricanes. The flooding was so bad my parents 5 miles down the road from us couldn’t leave their street for 5 days. There was flooding another 4 miles in the other direction that had 6 feet of flood water standing through peoples homes for over 2 weeks. Multiple roads the town over had completely washed out and had huge deep holes where the road was, they just repaired the last one earlier this month. I cannot believe how much damage there was here, so far inland. I was watching chasers on this storm as it came ashore, up until I lost cell service. Thank you for your coverage and showing how intense this storm was!
Great work as always Max!
Thank you Charlie!
I think that THIS tornado outbreak in Florida ITSELF was the most prolific, damaging, deadly, and biggest tornado outbreak in Florida history
Stayed outside and watched both Helene and Milton because was on the southern most edge of both and didn't see the rain or higher winds but both took me by surprise by how the harbor waters were pushed on shore
Have lived a quarter mile from the harbor since Charley (that one sucked the peace river dry) and it was the first time our house flooded
Milton was by far the scariest Hurricane I feel Ive ever dealt with here in Florida, I aint use to Nado outbreaks like that at all, I felt like I was being trapped by the amount of nado warnings I was seeing all around the state, Im happy nothing bad happened to my area luckly, Sad for those who werent so lucky
Largo FL. Milton was one of the most intense storms I've ever been in. Made a parking garage my base until about 2am. I was on the Jersey shore when Sandy hit and Milton dwarfed that
one of the Milton tornado outbreak EF3s passed a block from my house. Lots of damage. that was wild. then we had 70 mph winds all night.
Im in the gulf and we just had a blizzard.
As Mr. Beckwith would say “weather weirding”.
Milton: Florida's version of Katrina
Also I hope in the future you do a world wide tropical cyclone chase😮
Me too! Almost went for Beryl in the Lesser Antilles when it looked like it might go further north and almost went to the Philippines for the back to back storms they had this season. Always tricky to try and justify the expense and logistical hurdles but I really want to make it happen soon!
Milton was badass
And it only made landfall as a 3 thankfully. Cant imagine if it made landfall at it's full intensity.
My grandma lives in the palmetto/Ellenton area for the winter. Her house survived this hurricane.
Me here in Orlando hurricane Milton was absolutely horrendous the winds were so high that my trampolining was on top of the roof and we were near the eye of the hurricane it was worse then hurricane Ian ‘’in my opinion’’ we were prepared but the damage was minimal but I prayed to god so my family and poeple stay safe❤😢
TY Max 🤠😎💙🙏
@@travisforest39 Of course 🙏
i go to college in orlando and i was originally going to just stay there during milton until it only got stronger and i evacuated down to my parents house in miami
so many storms i cant even remember which one actually hit me lol
Milton was so glazed even though Helene was way worse it was both way more costly and especially deadlier and more intense upon landfall
Where is this at?
Clearwater FL and st Petersburg FL was one of hardest hit areas Clearwater FL and st Petersburg FL had over foot of rain almost 20 inches in st Petersburg FL
Houses in the center of st pete that are not even in a flood zone got flood damage. Was crazy here
Miami Florida - Minimal impacts due to Milton, but it was like standing outside a house fire. I looked out into the Everglades thinking to myself
What the absolute fuck is going on.
Get ready for the 2025 hurricanes season, since we don’t what will happen?
It was crazy I live in fL it was bad
Just imagine, if it didnt colapse at the end before landfall. I dont want to think about what could've been.
Nice video👍👍
happy birthday to me, i got a hurricane for my birthday last year
Somehow my house took a direct hit and we didn't even lose power. I know many were not that lucky. I can't explain it.
Scariest storm in my 35 years here. This is only year 3 on the gulf coast.
Charley was the scariest for me and Ian...ooh Ian was so long and horrible... Ian was a beast
And none of this seems odd to people. 😢 Sad.
The regrets I have not going after the tornadoes before the cane lol....stupid fuel.
That was the my 13th hurricane and second eye. I got the eye of hurricane Helene 13 days prior. Best part was i didnt have to chase it down because I live in Sarasota. Crazy 2 weeks. I also made the biggest mistake of my life and almost filmed my own death because I got careless and made a quick move in the dark and while filming a transformer popping I knelt on a downed line from the main power line to someones house. I got lucky it was superficial electricity going through the line but it was very dumb move on my part. 13 hurricanes and i just about killed myself a few blocks from my house. I always try to be prepared for anything and stay extremely aware and this was just plain stupidity.
I’m saying this in 2025 but when it happened did anyone see this guys page where he got harassed by people and police officers to get out his boat and get some where else but he didn’t listen and he did actually survive it was all over TikTok but I think his name was Dan something idk
i was in the eye that storm was pretty crazy
Very cool, where were you at?
Pinellas county and Hillsboro county had sustained winds over 100 for 6 + hours
I turned off all the power in the house just in case
max olson
@@poohoo4495 Poo Hoo
Yall think Milton was bad you should have been there for hurricane Michael 🤦🏻♂️😒
😢😢😢
A couple months late dude, but frl.
Whos here in 2028 *As a joke*
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