Florida’s ‘Lieutenant Dan’ refuses to leave boat despite imminent Hurricane Milton landfall

Florida's 'Lieutenant Dan' refuses to leave boat despite Hurricane Milton landfallSky News

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00:00And that's what I'm doing, and I'm here for God. He told me to be here, so I'm here.

00:05Are you not anxious? People are being told that to stay here is to face the prospect of death.

00:12I'm in a boat, and there's water coming in. I'm going to go up with the water, and when the water goes out, I'm going to go down.

00:18As long as I keep the water out of the inside of my boat, I'll be fine.

00:22And you sat through and stayed here through Hurricane Helene, which itself was a deadly storm.

00:28Last week, I did the same thing I'm doing right now.

00:31The wind came out of the west over here, pushed me to the east, so I was over the water, and I just watched it go up.

00:38I went to sleep at 12.30. I woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning.

00:42I suppose the danger is that the boat gets battered against this harbor wall or gets swept away.

00:47Because it's got the—I'm worried about it getting scratched up. That's it.

00:51I mean, that's the worst that's going to happen.

00:53So it'll be all right. Everything will be fine.