A 2013 report from the World Bank placed the Tampa Bay area seventh on a list of the top 10 global cities facing the costliest damage from coastal floods
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Milton is forecast to be on a different scale.
Thousands of evacuees clog highways as storm projected to hit Tampa Bay on Wednesday restrengthens to category 5
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"The mayor of Tampa, which is low-lying and has a population of 3.3 million, issued a stark warning to residents as Hurricane Milton dashed across the Gulf of Mexico.
“If you choose to stay … you are going to die,” said the mayor, Jane Castor.
Castor delivered the blunt assessment to CNN on Monday while also describing Milton as a “literally catastrophic” hurricane projected to push up to 15ft of Gulf water inland – an amount that officials say is deadly."