The American state of Florida is still licking its wounds after the devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene last week and a new hurricane is already approaching. Hurricane Milton is expected to reach land on Wednesday night. More than 5.5 million people have been called to evacuate.
Milton has strengthened again into a Category 5 hurricane, reaching sustained winds of 170 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported. “This could be the worst storm to hit Florida in a century,” President Biden said of the hurricane. He called on residents of parts of Florida on Tuesday to evacuate “now, now, now” before the hurricane makes landfall. He called it a “matter of life and death.”
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And residents of Florida have responded en masse. Roads leading to other states are full of cars wanting to leave and petrol stations are running out of gas as people have stocked up en masse.
Images of long traffic jams are circulating on social media. And it is precisely in those images that the danger lies, warns editor-in-chief of NU.nl, Lindsay Mossink. “Don’t immediately believe everything you see on social media. For example, it could also be old images of scenes during previous hurricanes.”
Correction
Mossink’s warning did not come out of the blue, because the editors of NU.nl also encounter ‘fake images’ or fragments that are misinterpreted every day. For example, the website reported last year that Israel was behind a large-scale rocket attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip. That turned out to be different. “I don’t want to create an editorial team in which there is no room for making mistakes. However, there must be room for rectification, which we have done extensively in this case.”
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