"Unfortunately, there will be fatalities. I don't think there's any way around that," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference Wednesday.
Some can't afford the gas or hotel rates or airfare to get out, some can't find shelters that are open, and some can't find places that take pets.
FEMA - whose workers will be on the front lines helping people and managing the destruction - is already short-staffed, and is now spread even thinner due to the back-to-back hits from Helene and Milton.
The scale of the storm itself and the unpredictability of its precise path meant that it was impossible to gauge where the most help would be needed on Florida's coast.
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