'Everything we've seen in those scary end-of-world movies was happening in front of our eyes': Dublin tourist caught up in Hurricane Milton

"We didn't evacuate, but a lot of people did. We're in Orlando, near Disneyland, and we were told to stay in our hotel rooms."

"We're so lucky that the electricity didn't go off. There have been floods outside our hotel though. There's a lake just right outside our room, so the grass is flooded."

"I was just asleep. The weather was actually really nice [on Tuesday]. It was beautiful, blue sky, really hot. I thought it wouldn't be so bad, but it was the calm before the storm."

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