Milton evacuees are facing congested roads and gas stations running out of fuel as the hurricane approaches.
Floridians fleeing faced shortages at gas stations in addition to congested roads.
« Every highway is dead-stop traffic it seems », said Chris Cain, a resident of Sanibel Island Tuesday with his girlfriend and 8-month-old. « There are fuel outages throughout the area, so there’s navigating that to even get to » the hotel 20 miles inland that the couple booked earlier in the week, Cain told CBS MoneyWatch.
Hurricane Milton, currently a violent Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour, headed eastward early Tuesday as it moved just off the north coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Milton is expected to make landfall early Thursday, according to CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan.
The storm comes as many Floridians and other Gulf Coast residents try to recover after getting slammed by .Florida gas stations without fuel
As of late morning on Tuesday, nearly 15%, or 1,146, of Florida’s 7,912 gas stations were without fuel, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told CBS MoneyWatch.
