--- title: "Miami Requests E-Scooters to be Removed to Avoid “Scooternado”" description: "In light of an impending \"monster storm,\" the City of Miami requested all e-scooters to be removed from its streets by noon today to avoid a \"scooternado.\"" date: "2019-08-30" modified: "2019-08-30" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/miami-escooters-removed-scooternado" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "electric scooter" - "electric scooters" - "florida" - "lime" - "the digest" --- # Miami Requests E-Scooters to be Removed to Avoid “Scooternado” ![In light of an impending "monster storm," the City of Miami requested all e-scooters to be removed from its streets by noon today to avoid a "scooternado."]() *\Image: NASA/Victor Tangermann\* ## Scooternado The city of Miami officially called for shared electric scooters to be removed from the streets on Thursday. And *pronto* — all scooters need to disappear by noon, Friday. That's because Category 3 hurricane Dorian, [referred to]() as "a monster storm" by CNN, is destined to make landfall any time now. For the uninitiated, Category 3 hurricanes are, in a word, massive. All of Florida was put under a state of emergency earlier this week. "It's going to impact the entirety of Florida, and residents need to be prepared," Acting FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor said Friday morning on CNN's "New Day." So a massive whirlwind of 45-pound Lime scooters whizzing through the air as Floridians are looking for shelter wouldn't necessarily be helpful. Ken Russell, Miami's City Commissioner of District 2, called it a potential "scooternado" in a [Thursday tweet](). ## If Scooters Could Fly Lime obliged to the request, and pulled its bicycles from major cities across Florida. The scooter sharing company has about 1500 e-scooters spread out across those cities, [according to *The Verge*](). Lyft claimed it will remove its hundreds of scooters from Miami's streets and secure them by the city's deadline, as [*CNET* reported](). This isn't the first time a potential scooter hurricane held cities in Florida hostage. In 2017, Hurricane Irma caused Lime to pull its bike fleet from throughout the Sunshine State. **READ MORE:** [Miami calls for removal of electric scooters before Hurricane Dorian arrives]() \[*CNET*\] **More on e-scooters:** *[Hackers Can Access Your Electric Scooter While You're Riding It]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()