'My anxiety's through the roof,' says woman who stayed at home for Milton

Chynna Perkins described her experiences to the BBC as a powerful storm bore down on her part of Florida.

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But from her home in Tampa, squarely in the path of the coming storm, Chynna Perkins decided to stay.

By Thursday morning, she said she, her husband Sterling and their pets had weathered the storm but lost power.

As the storm came and went, Perkins talked the BBC through her situation with a series of voice notes and calls, describing how Milton barrelled through her neighbourhood of West Tampa.

Her decision to stay was a matter of gut instinct, she said, after years living through Florida’s storms. Twenty-five miles (40km) east of the sea, and half a mile west of Tampa’s Hillsborough River, she felt protected from any storm surge.

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