A woman drove a 54-hour round trip to rescue her 93-year-old grandma from Hurricane Milton.

Jennifer Seaman, 40, and her mom, Sue Schaffnit, 66, were worried about the devastating impact of Hurricane Milton and decided to drive from Peoria, Illinois, to Venice, Florida.

The duo set off on October 6, at 10pm and made the 1,210 mile journey through Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia before arriving in Venice, Florida at 7pm local time on October 7.

Jennifer packed up her 93-year-old grandma's, bags with her mom and set off 30 minutes later.

The drive back to Illinois took 34 hours and they arrived home on October 9, at 5am.

Jennifer said she is unsure how long their grandma will be staying with them has her care home has lost power and the area has flooded.

Jennifer, a stay-at-home mom, from Peoria, Illinois, said: "Around 9pm when things started to get more severe, I was talking to my mom."

"We were back and forth on the phone, checking flights, but everything was booked."

"It was pushing 10pm and we decided we should drive down there and do it."

"I went to my mom's house and we spent about five minutes deciding what we were going to do and went."

"We didn't pack bags or have a change of clothes."

They set off at 10pm and spent 20 hours on the road before arriving in Venice, Florida.

The pair made the 1,210.8 mile journey to arrive in Venice, Florida at 7pm local time on October 7.

Jennifer said: "We were only at the home for 30 minutes."

"The staff at the home had a plan to shelter in place and encouraged residents to stay."

"I think for my mum and I, if something bad was to happen or if the storm was to take a massive turn and wipe people out - the last thing we wanted was my grandma to have died without family with her."

They left Venice, Florida, at 7:30pm local time and hit gridlock traffic for six hours - only moving 100 miles.

The plan was to drive as far as possible and stay in a hotel but they were finding that most hotels were fully booked.

Jennifer said: "We were still calling hotels at 10am on Tuesday morning trying to find somewhere to rest for a couple of hours."

"We finally found a hotel just outside Atlanta, where we checked in around 11am and headed out at 2pm."

Jennifer, Sue and Sue's mum arrived back in Peoria, Illinois at 5am on October 9 after spending 34 hours on the road home.

Jennifer said she is glad she went to pick up her grandma and is unsure how long she will be staying with the family.

She said: "As we were getting out the storm was picking up intensity."

"The drive home was rough, we were in tonnes and tonnes of gridlock traffic."

"Everyone was trying to leave."

"Grandma is very relieved to be here, she was very strong throughout the journey as it was a long way to travel at her age."

"We are so proud to have such a courageous woman as our matriarch "

"She is anxious to get back and see how everyone is, but we have seen the flooding in Venice and the power is out so we can't contact her assisted living home."