Kazakhstani students warned of safety measures as Hurricane Milton nears Florida

Kazakhstani students warned of safety measures as Hurricane Milton nears Florida
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About five million people are being evacuated from the US state of Florida, which is expected to be hit by Hurricane Milton on Wednesday evening, BBC reported.

31 Bolashak program students from Kazakhstan are studying at the universities of Florida today. The students are staying at their houses now. The universities are temporarily closed, and the educational process is suspended, the press service of JSC Center for International Programs said to Kazinform News Agency.

The CIP monitors the situation in connection with the Hurricane Milton approaching Florida.

“All of our students were informed about the storm and are in constant contact with their supervisors. We maintain contact both with the students and the universities in order to respond promptly to any changes in the situation. The situation is calm now. We urge all students to strictly adhere to safety measures and stay in touch for prompt information,” press secretary of the CIP Lyazzat Tukusheva says.None of the Bolashak students has been injured.

A massive evacuation is already under way as residents of the Tampa Bay area head inland, seeking shelter after Milton rapidly strengthened from a tropical storm to Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale on Monday, Al-Jazeera reported.

“This is the real deal here with Milton,” the mayor of Tampa, Jane Castor, told a news conference. “If you want to take on Mother Nature, she wins 100 percent of the time.”

In an interview with CNN, Castor issued a dire warning to residents of her city. “This is literally catastrophic, and I can say, without any dramatization whatsoever, if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you’re going to die,” she said.

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