Project Phoenix combined simulated weather reports and archived video footage from other storms to emphasize the danger of a potential Category 5 hitting the area directly.
A simulation meant to prepare Tampa for a devastating Category 5 hurricane turned out to be eerily similar to the path Milton is taking as it approaches Florida.
Though Hurricane Phoenix was fictional, the warnings have taken on prophetic significance this week as the nightmare envisioned by Project Phoenix approaches in the form of the very real Hurricane Milton. The horrifying scenes used in the simulation show the city's downtown area underwater, with cars and debris floating around'The devastation to the region is almost unimaginable,' the narrator says.
The simulation also shows medical personnel saying they are trapped on the third floor of the Tampa General Hospital. The last time the eye of a major storm like Hurricane Milton struck Tampa Bay, in 1921, the city was a sleepy backwater of a few hundred thousand people. A century later, it’s among the fastest-growing metropolises in the United States, with more than 3 million people, and highly vulnerable to flooding due to climate change.
A 2015 report from the Boston-based catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark and Co. concluded that Tampa Bay is the most vulnerable place in the U.S. to storm surge flooding from a hurricane and stands to lose $175 billion in damage.
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