(10 Oct 2024)
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Palmetto, Florida – 10 October 2024
1. Natasha Ducre walks into damaged home
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Natasha Ducre, Florida resident:
"This was home. You know, when you when you when you at home, you don’t think this is going to have you don’t think this might go something’s gonna come and just rip away your whole life. You don’t think about that. So this is this is home and it’s gone. Home is gone. So home ain’t home no more. So yeah, I’m very emotional"
3. Exterior of damaged home
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Natasha Ducre, Florida resident:
"I knew and said, ‘Baby, we’ve got to go because we ain’t going to survive this.’ So we end up going to a shelter and trying to wait it out. But as we were there, he was talking to one of his friends and they were telling to him, ‘I see your your roof lifting up.’ It wasn’t gone then. Then we got another text message, said ‘your roof gone.’"
5. Damage inside home
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Natasha Ducre, Florida resident:
"My husband was crying and I was crying. We just couldn’t believe it because you know, he’s he’s from here. He grew up here and he’s like he’s never hit home. You know, it goes around, you know, water damage, but never this bad. But to take everything? It’s crazy. Speechless."
7. Exterior of home
8. Interior of home
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Natasha Ducre, Florida resident:
"Would not survive. I don’t think we would have because we don’t have a ceiling. So imagine being in a house with no ceiling. No roof. No protection. Nothing. It winds at 100 and what? No, I don’t think we’ll still be here. So anyone who say they want to stay in a house when hurricanes come, I’m sorry. I don’t recommend it because I’m glad that my husband finally listened, he didn’t want to listen to me, he finally listened and we left in the nick of time."
10. Ducre shows one of the damaged rooms
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Natasha Ducre, Florida resident:
"So thank you all to the shelters…that were here…JP Miller, thank you so much. They took good care of us there. Thank you for the shelters, the people who reached out to help and donate it to help us in the shelter. Those on lifesavers people like us in these situations."
12. Ducre inside home
STORYLINE:
Many Florida residents were returning to their homes Thursday after Hurricane Milton pummelled the state, the second major hurricane in two weeks.
Millions of people in several counties had been ordered to evacuate earlier this week as Milton approached.
In Palmetto, southwest of Tampa, resident Natasha Ducre and her family of seven returned from a government shelter to find their home demolished and unlivable — furniture and other belongings destroyed by heavy rainwater. The roof in her kitchen had collapsed, with debris now carpeting the floor. Their home destroyed, siblings Saboria, 4, and Messiah Tyler, 3, had nowhere to sleep but the backseat of a car.
Milton slammed into Florida as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday, killing at least 5 people, spawning tornadoes and leaving more than 3 million homes and businesses without power. The state’s central Gulf Coast was hardest hit by the outages, including Hardee, Sarasota, Hillsborough and Manatee counties.
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