President Joe Biden has postponed a planned trip to Germany and Angola to stay at the White House and monitor Hurricane Milton, which is spinning closer to Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Reports indicate that the President who is presently stationed at the White House expressed his willingness to stay in the U.S and see to the implementation of the necessary protocols for evacuation.
“I just don’t think I can be out of the country at this time,” he said at the White House after senior administration members updated him on the storm and the government’s preparations. Biden warned that Milton “could be one of the worst storms in 100 years to hit Florida”
He said people in the storm’s path should heed local orders to evacuate and leave “now.”
“You should have already evacuated,” Biden said, seated with some of the officials who briefed him. “It’s a matter of life and death, and that’s not hyperbole. It’s a matter of life and death.”
Biden described Milton’s strength was such that it has the potential “to both enter Florida as a hurricane and leave Florida as a hurricane on the Atlantic Coast. This could be the worst storm to hit Florida in over a century. God willing it won’t be, but that’s what it’s looking like right now.”
The United States President has hereby requested the aid of commercial airlines and other companies for help with evacuations.
“I’m calling on the airlines and other companies to provide as much service as possible to accommodate evacuations and not to engage in price gouging, to just do it on the level,” Biden said.
