{"id":84622,"date":"2024-10-11T09:47:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T02:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=84622"},"modified":"2024-10-11T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T02:48:16","slug":"florida-man-called-lieutenant-dan-refuses-to-leave-the-boat-as-hurricane-milton-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/florida-man-called-lieutenant-dan-refuses-to-leave-the-boat-as-hurricane-milton-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man called \u2018Lieutenant Dan\u2019 refuses to leave the boat as Hurricane Milton approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Lieutenant Dan has been transported to a Tampa Bay shelter.\n</p><p>Tampa Mayor Jane Castor announced the good news during a press conference on Wednesday.\n</p><p>\u201cThe Tampa Police Department, this morning, just saved Lieutenant Dan. He has been rescued, and he is now in a shelter as well. If we can get Lieutenant Dan to go to a shelter, we can get anybody to do that.\u201d\n</p><p>The original story is as follows.\n</p><p>As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast, homeowners are running out of time to flee. While the majority of Tampa residents have followed the mayor\u2019s evacuation instructions, some have remained behind, either by choice or need.\n</p><p>One such man, known as \u201cLieutenant Dan,\u201d has piqued the interest of the internet, officials, and The Weather Channel\u2019s Jim Cantore for refusing to leave his 20-foot boat docked in Tampa Bay.\n</p><p>\u201cThe water\u2019s going to come in, it\u2019s going to rise. If you\u2019re on land, it\u2019s going to flood. You\u2019re risking drowning. I\u2019m in a boat, so the boat goes up with the water\u2026 it\u2019s really the safest place to be, on my boat,\u201d the man, who goes by Joe Sea, said.\n</p><p>A TikTok user known as Tampa Terrence has been following Lieutenant Dan since he rode out Hurricane Helene on his boat in Tampa Bay in late September.\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-170191 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/timelesslife.info%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/241009-hurricane-milton-evacuati.jpg%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/timelesslife.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/241009-hurricane-milton-evacuati.jpg' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"760\"' height='\"507\"' data-adbro-processed='\"true\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p>But now, supporters of the man, who shares a nickname with the Forrest Gump character who is also an amputee, are concerned that he may not survive the much stronger Hurricane Milton, which is expected to hit the coast late Wednesday or early Thursday.\n</p><p>Through a series of videos, Terrence attempted to persuade Lieutenant Dan that he needed to abandon ship and seek refuge in a house or hotel.\n</p><p>The seafarer refused, claiming he was better off aboard his boat. Since his boat was all he had, he wanted to do everything he could to keep it safe from the hurricane.\n</p><p>Even the local police paid Lieutenant Dan a visit and gave him information on shelters in the area, but nothing could persuade him. Not even Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel.\n</p><p>\u201cI know that God didn\u2019t bring me this far for something to happen to me,\u201d he told the meteorologist and on-air personality for The Weather Channel.\n</p><p>\u201cThe more you go through it, the more you learn,\u201d he said, referring to surviving Hurricane Helene. \u201cI\u2019m confident in my ability to ride it out unless it turns into a Wizard of Oz-type situation, and I wind up in Kansas.\u201d\n</p><p>\u201cI\u2019ll be here. I\u2019ll see you Friday,\u201d\n</p><p>As of October 8, Lieutenant Dan has decided to stay put.\n</p><p>I pray that he makes the right decision and even if it\u2019s at the last minute, I hope he seeks shelter somewhere on land. There are many people who are now concerned for his safety.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Update: Lieutenant Dan has been transported to a Tampa Bay shelter. Tampa Mayor Jane Castor announced the good news during a press conference on Wednesday. \u201cThe Tampa Police Department, this morning, just saved Lieutenant Dan. He has been rescued, and he is now in a shelter as well. If we can get Lieutenant Dan to &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":84624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84625,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84622\/revisions\/84625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p>