One Legged Tampa Man (Lieutenant Dan) Refuses To Evacuate His Boat Before Hurricane Milton
It’s like the movie Forest Gump but in real life. “One legged Tampa Man (Lieutenant Dan) Refuses to evacuate his boat before hurricane Milton.” I actually feel so bad for this man and was thinking about dropping him off food and offering him a hotel room. From the videos on Tampa Terrence’s TikTok, he appears to be in Downtown Tampa which is about 20 minutes from where I live in St. Petersburg. I highly doubt I could convince him to leave seeing that he’s already had the Mayor, Police Chief and even Jim Cantore himself trying to convince him but were not successful.
Real Life Lieutenant Dan Refuses To Evacuate Before Hurricane Milton

I really appreciate Tampa Terrence for always checking in on Lieutenant Dan and making sure he’s ok. Terrence is actually the one who went to inform him that a major hurricane was coming. In the video below you can see Lieutenant Dan’s reaction to hurricane Milton coming.
As you can see, he is not leaving. He actually stayed for Helene which did not directly impact us but a lot of people were impacted. This Hurricane however will be different. At 6pm on October 8th, Milton has strengthened back to a category 5. I really hope he changes his mind and decides to evacuate. Below is another video of him explaining why he wont leave.
Im a Christian and also believe and put my faith in God. I also believe that God gives us free will and would want Lieutenant Dan to evacuate before Hurricane Milton. If you are out there and are not evacuating because you don’t have the money, you don’t need money! There are free shelters all across the Tampa Bay area. Check out this website, for information. If you would like to help Lieutenant Dan, he has a GoFund me set up! Someone already made a big donation of $1k! Hopefully our guy will evacuate!