Ahead of the landfall of Hurricane Milton, thousands of people have fled their residence in Florida has been advised to do by the state official and Tampa Mayor Jane Castor emphasized on CNN that people who don’t flee evacuation zones are “going to die.” However a woman identified as Amanda Moss on tiktok has stated she can’t due to financial impediment. Moss, in several videos exposed that she doesn’t have enough money to evacuate herself, her husband, her six children, her four French bulldogs and her mother-in-law from the Fort Myers area, despite official warnings to evacuate. “Mom anxiety is real,” she said through tears in one video, adding: “We don’t have the money to evacuate, and where am I evacuating to?” Moss said she has a seven-passenger Chevrolet Suburban that would need to fit nine people and the four dogs. Driving out of state would take almost 10 hours, she said, and she worries about becoming stranded without gas, or being on the road in Florida when the hurricane makes landfall. According to the mom of six, she said she doesn’t have the money to pack her family on a flight, into multiple hotel rooms or into an Airbnb. The mom of six has been criticized overly on tikTok for her decision to engender her life and that of her family, especially when she refused the offer of an accommodation by several people on the medium. Moss has a home in Tampa, she said on TikTok, but the hurricane is also expected to strike there. “If I could get out, I would, but where are we going?” Moss said in one video. “Everything is booked. … Unless you’re hopping on a plane and evacuating your family, where is everybody going?” Moss said on TikTok that she also has prepared, picking up a generator for her house, where she said the windows are designed to withstand hurricane winds. She said she loaded her car with supplies in case the family has no choice but to leave. During Category 4 Hurricane Ian in 2022, Moss said, water rose to her home’s front door but didn’t enter the house. She said she hopes for a similar outcome with Milton. “This isn’t a pride or ego thing,” Moss said. “I’m just doing what I need to do for my … family, and hopefully that’s the best. I don’t know.” Florida officials said on X on Tuesday that they were escorting fuel trucks along evacuation routes for gas stations that were out of fuel. Many state residents are evacuating for the second time within the past three weeks, after Category 4 Hurricane Helene, which killed at least 230 people.
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