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5 Things to Know About TikTok's Lieutenant Dan After Hurricane Milton
TikTok sensation Joe Malinowski, known as Lieutenant Dan, spent Hurricane Milton on a 22-foot sailboat in Tampa Bay
Courtesy of jaysea331/TikTokViral TikTok sensation Lieutenant Dan, whose real name is Joe Malinowski, garnered concern after making it known that he had no plans to leave his 22-foot sailboat despite being parked in Hurricane Milton’s path in Tampa Bay, Florida. “Right now, I’m waiting for the storm surge to come in to raise the boat up,” Lieutenant Dan calmly explained in a Wednesday, October 9, TikTok posted the same day that Milton made landfall near Siesta Key in Sarasota County, about 65 miles from Tampa. However, after the storm, National Weather Service meteorologist Tyler Fleming told USA Today that Tampa instead experienced a reverse surge that drove water away from the shoreline.
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