A Florida mobile home park is told to evacuate but some residents have nowhere to go
A Florida mobile home park is told to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton but some residents have nowhere to go.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Homes knocked off their foundations, piles of wet carpet, wood and pipes rotting in the sun, and abandoned cars and trucks littering roads glazed with mud and blocked by debris.
With one of the most powerful hurricanes in a century barreling toward Florida on Tuesday, the Twin City mobile home park was already a scene of devastation because of Hurricane Helene.
Now, as Hurricane Milton stays on track to hit the state Wednesday, residents of Twin City say they're unprepared for the double whammy of nearly back-to-back hurricanes.
While millions of Floridians living in the path of the storm were heeding urgent evacuation orders, a few holdouts were still hanging around the wreckage of the low-lying mobile home park.
The Twin City mobile home park in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Tuesday.Matt Lavietes / NBC NewsMark Prompakdee, a 71-year-old retiree who has lived in the park for five years with his older brother, said they survived Helene by packing everything they could into their minivan and camping out for two days in a nearby high school parking lot on higher ground.
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