The singer donated $5 million to the Feeding America association, which manages relief operations for people affected by hurricanes Helene and Milton in the United States.
Taylor Swift helps victims of Hurricane Milton. According to The Hollywood Reporterthe singer, who became the richest female artist in the world, donated $ 5 million to the association Feeding America, which manages relief operations for people affected by hurricanes Helene and Milton in the United States -United.
“We are incredibly grateful to Taylor Swift,” Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, executive director of Feeding America, said in a statement posted on the organization’s social media channels.
“This contribution will help communities rebuild and recover, providing essential food, clean water and supplies to those affected by these devastating storms.”
A “deadly and catastrophic storm”
Hurricane Milton, “extremely dangerous” according to authorities, made landfall Wednesday evening in Florida, sweeping the coast with violent winds, heavy rains and flooding the center of this peninsula in the southeast of the United States, two weeks later the devastating passage of another hurricane, Helene, which left at least 236 dead in the United States, including at least 15 in Florida.
Winds reaching 165 km/h were recorded in the evening and at least 1.6 million homes were without power overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, according to the specialist site poweroutage.us.
Announced as a “deadly and catastrophic storm”, Milton is expected to cross Florida from west to east, according to the US Hurricane Center (NHC), passing in particular near the city of Orlando, where the Disney World theme parks were closed at midday.
The airports of Tampa and Sarasota are at a standstill and residents of the affected areas have received evacuation orders for several days from the authorities, assuring that it is a “matter of life and death”.
Downgraded at the end of the day to category 3 (out of 5) but still considered “major” by the NHC, Milton is expected to be “one of the most destructive hurricanes in more than a century in Florida”, warned Joe Biden on Wednesday evening .
