Empty gas stations, full hotels, and gridlocked highways: A Tampa resident shares what she saw on her 'terrifying' evacuation from Hurricane Milton.

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For the first few hours of the roughly 80-mile drive from Tampa to Orlando, Makayla Pelletier and her boyfriend fiddled between radio stations and tried to make small talk — anything to calm their nerves as rain poured on Interstate 4's gridlocked traffic.