An influencer has decided to use her platform to tell her followers that she will not be evacuating her house in Florida, where Hurricane Milton is expected to land. Caroline Calloway , 32, grew to fame as one of the first Instagram influencers by documenting her time at Cambridge University. However, she later sparked an internet frenzy after a viral essay written by former friend Natalie Beach claimed that Calloway had a ghostwriter compose her captions.
Now living in Florida, the author took to her Instagram Story on October 8 to explain why she had not left an evacuation zone prior to the Category 4 hurricane. “So if you’ve been following Hurricane Milton, um, I’m going to die!” she said in her since-deleted Instagram Story, per the Daily Mail . “It’s supposed to make landfall in the Sarasota-Bradenton area.
I’m in Sarasota, I live on the water, it’s zone A, mandatory evacuation.” Calloway continued to explain why she wasn’t leaving, mentioning that she couldn’t drive, the airport was closed, and her previous evacuation during Hurricane Ian was “traumatic.” “Her whole street flooded and we were evacuated after three days without power or running water by the US military,” the influencer said, speaking about how she previously left her home to travel to her mother’s house during the last hurricane.
“It was very traumatic and so I don’t want to evacuate to my mom’s house because the last time I did that, it was the worst time ever!” A.