This mayor stated individuals who stayed throughout Milton will ‘die.’ Now she has a brand new message

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor is pulling no punches.

Two days after telling CNN’s anchor Kaitlin Collins that anybody who was in a compulsory evacuation zone and selected to remain is “going to die,” she doubled down.

Showing on the “In the present day” present Wednesday morning, hours earlier than Hurricane Milton smacked into her metropolis, Castor once more refused to mince phrases.

Savannah Guthrie requested the general public official if her message can be as “blunt” now.

“Nicely, wherever that storm surge comes, if it’s 10 to fifteen ft, and persons are making an attempt to journey this out in single story buildings, there’s no place to go,” the 63-year-old former cop stated. “And as soon as these winds stand up to hurricane velocity, there’s no person to return and get you.”

Whereas Castor didn’t come out and say people would really perish, she refused to sugarcoat such a harmful scenario.

Milton continued to barrel towards Florida’s Gulf Coast, anticipating to make landfall someday Wednesday night in what may very well be one of many Sunshine State’s worst storms in a century.

“The purpose of being blunt was to get everybody’s consideration,” she stated of her response to the Cat 4 monster. “This isn’t a drill.”

Many of the commenters on the “In the present day” put up have been in settlement with the straight talker.

“That’s good that she [has] been blunt. Folks simply don’t comply with directions. That is severe … transfer get out … now.”

“Folks, please hearken to the mayor. Don’t put your life in danger.”

“Nicely performed.”