Influencer slammed for refusing to evacuate for Hurricane Milton: 'I have champagne'

Influencer Caroline Calloway has refused to leave her Florida home though she lives in the mandatory evacuation zone. “So if you’ve been following Hurricane Milton, um, I’m going to die,” the controversial Instagram scammer said in a video Tuesday. “It’s supposed to make landfall in the Sarasota-Bradenton area. I’m in Sarasota, I live on the water. It’s a zone A, mandatory evacuation,” she said.

And then she promoted her second book that will come out if she survives. "For more great advice, buy my second book! It’s called Elizabeth Wurtzel and Caroline Calloway’s Guide to Life. It’s about to come out if I survive! It’s an advice book ;-) Cute!!!!! <3," she wrote.

"I have champagne and four generations of Floridians in my veins. It’ll be fine," she posted on Wednesday.

Caroline explained that she would not be evacuating as she can't drive and then the airport is closed. “Third of all, the last time I evacuated for a hurricane, I went to my mom’s house in Northport for Hurricane Ian … Her whole street flooded and we were evacuated after three days without power or running water by the US military,” she said.

I have champagne and four generations of Floridians in my veins. It’ll be fine.

— ◥◤Caroline Calloway (@carolinecaloway) October 9, 2024

I’m not evacuating for the hurricane. I live in Sarasota, on the beach, in evacuation zone A. For more great advice, buy my second book! It’s called Elizabeth Wurtzel and Caroline Calloway’s Guide to Life. It’s about to come out if I survive! It’s an advice book ;-) Cute!!!!! <3

— ◥◤Caroline Calloway (@carolinecaloway) October 9, 2024

Calloway is a self-proclaimed scammer who defrauded fans in the name of "creative workshops" that never happened. The influencer fled her West Village apartment several years ago when reports claimed that she owed $40,000 unpaid rent.

Social media users called her the worst influencer. "Why would anybody want advice from someone this f**king stupid?" one wrote. "Nobody cares idiot. Go surfing u too!" another wrote. Some people expressed concerns over her cats and pleaded with her to at least let the cat free. "Dying for clout is so weird," one wrote.

Florida is now staring at a supercells of tornados apart from the ongoing threat of Milton. Storm systems capable of generating tornados have started to sweep across the southern Florida peninsula as Hurricane Milton rapidly approaches the Sunshine State, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday morning. The powerful, Category 4 storm was spinning northeast at 17 mph about 190 miles off the coast of Tampa Wednesday morning with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph.