Mountains of sand and debris still remain in Florida beach towns with Milton fast approaching

Storm chaser Mike Scantlin describes the scene in Madeira Beach as "apocalyptic" ahead of powerful Hurricane Milton.

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00:00I'm Storm Chaser Mike Stantl

00:02on the ground in Madiera

00:05here right along the barri

00:11behind me here. We've got

00:13flying back and forth, la

00:15being escorted by patrol

00:17of debris. Now all this s

00:20from Hurricane Helene jus

00:21ago. What has reopened an

00:27evacuating. Most of what

00:30in Madiera Beach, not ope

00:33A lot of cleanup still ta

00:34people still reeling from

00:36Helene. And now we have C

00:39Milton with its site set

00:41here. So these people jus

00:43break. You know, with hur

00:46the year, they also got h

00:49was worse. And now this o

00:51could be even worse here

00:53storm goes north, that pu

00:55surge. If the storm comes

00:57have all the debris that'

00:59loose and piles along the

01:01debris everywhere, sand e

01:04an apocalyptic scene here

01:07with more extreme weather

01:10It's just worst case scen

01:12of that debris debris alr

01:15go flying in these winds.

01:18surge here with this one.

01:20storm goes north of here,

01:22gonna be really bad through

01:24we're hoping for the best

01:25for the worst here though

01:27for Accuweather. I'm stor