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Florida resident "Lieutenant Dan" recounts riding out Hurricane Milton on his sailboat: "I'm not scared of anything"

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Joseph Malinowski , a 54-year-old Tampa resident known locally as "Lieutenant Dan ," weatheredaboard his small sailboat in Tampa Bay early Thursday morning .

Despite the storm's powerful winds, he was unfazed, describing the experience as "pretty mellow," even though his boat was repeatedly slammed against a harbor wall during the worst of the storm.

"I'm not scared of anything," he said.

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