Horrifying simulation shows disastrous impact Hurricane Milton will potentially have on your house

A simulation has detailed how devastating of an impact Hurricane Milton will have on people's homes.

Hot on the heels of Hurricane Helene - a category five hurricane - Hurricane Milton is set to hit parts of Florida today (October 9).

The hurricane could pose a risk to people's lives.

As per the US Navy's website, a category 5 hurricane is defined as: "Winds greater than 155 mph. Damage as above plus complete failure of roofs on may residential and industrial buildings. Extensive shattering of window and door glass."

It goes on: "Many complete building failures and small buildings overturned or blown away. Storm Surge grater than 18' above normal tidal levels. Low lying escape routes inland cut by rising water 12 to 13 hours before hurricane center arrival. Massive evacuation of residential areas on low grounds within 5 to 10 miles of shore possibly required."

With the severity of the hurricane in mind, a simulation was created to demonstrate the devastating impact Hurricane Milton may have on people's homes.

With a category one hurricane, according to the simulation, strong winds can cause tiles from people's homes to fly off.

As the categories intensify, the impact worsens and by category three, the door of the home in the simulation has is blown into the property and the roof of the house 'starts to flap up and down in the wind'.

Fast forward to category five and part of the roof has been completely destroyed causing its internal walls to fall down because they're not attached to anything anymore, and all the trees in the neighborhood will have been uprooted.

The bleak simulation was first posted by The Weather Channel on YouTube 11 years ago, but has been doing the rounds again online ahead of the expected destruction Hurricane Milton's expected to cause.

With this in mind, people on Twitter are urging Florida residents to evacuate their homes.

"Please, I’m asking my fellow Floridians to evacuate or seek shelter by this evening," one person who shared the simulation penned yesterday.

People are being urged to leave their homes to flee the hurricane (Twitter)

"Evacuate Florida. No property or possessions are worth your life," echoed another.

Elsewhere someone else described category five hurricanes as 'biblical'.

They wrote: "As a person who’s dealt with hurricanes my whole life a category three & up are very serious. Category 5 is biblical in the damage it may do.

"Imagine a weak tornado but it hitting you for hours straight. Thats a hurricane. Prolonged winds, & rain for hours sometimes days."

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