for the most part we do still have power. it s really just the flooding and the storm surge that was an issue for us here. bret: did most people leave? i talked to our fire chief just before this interview and he did not see a lot of cars around the area when they went through this morning to do the assessment. so we re glad that a lot of people seem to have heeded the warnings. we tried to emphasize there may not be a lot of winds because the storm will hit to the north of us but the storm surge could be catastrophic. it made landfall 200 miles north of us but we re seeing 30 mile-per-hour winds here sustained and that storm surge i can see just from this bridge several properties that have several feet of water into their yards. bret: your state is used to these things. tons of storms. been through a lot. this particular area, the big
this is not just a storm that follows a path. it had 20 million people under a warning and streets like this are happening all across florida. people are getting stuck, fire trucks can t get through, people can t get their medicine. people can t get out of hospitals. there is really this water just stops everything in its tracks. dana: earlier in the day at 7:00 a.m., i believe, you said this storm has the potential to reshape the coastline? that s floridian officials saying it could reshape the coastline with the drama and with the storm surge. if you are talking about a 16-foot storm surge you could have small towns and coastal regions gone. right now we re seeing eight search and rescue teams, many from miami and also from around the country, staging in orlando. they haven t even begun to work yet. the water is going down but over
the coverage on the app. it is a great way to track with the storm going north. if it is your community north of florida or in the northern part of florida a great way to track every moment. fox weather has it covered and we ll be tapping a lot of the reporters that are out in the field, dana, the rest of the show. dana: their coverage is incredible. first of all, all the people that work there are amazing humans, really good people, fun to work with. wonderful to have them as colleagues. their coverage is excellent and they have a lot of experience as well, which is great. if you are looking for ever in a commercial break and want to check out what s going on as fox weather they re very good and the app is terrific. it is accurate and gives you a good indication of what your week will be like. bret, stick by with me as you have done the last two days. i appreciate that. we ll take a quick break and we ll be right back. veteran homeowners checked your credit card
area like what we saw during hurricane hermine. that s many hours before high tide after 4:00 p.m. this afternoon. so we ve got a long ways to go before we re out of the woods and we ve been telling folks that, you know, you can run from that water and stay away from it for long enough and we ll let you know when it s clear and safe to go back in there. we have a lot of folks out there, we still have quite a few folks that did not heed our warnings and evacuate when we issued the mandatory evacuation order on monday to get them to safer ground and to get them out of harm s way away from the storm. dana: sir, are you one of the entities that does not have power right now? actually, we do have power but we do have some power outages sporadically across the citrus county. i looked up on the television station tracking a couple of other things going on. we have had two tornado warnings in our county earlier this morning. my phone just went off while we were waiting to get on the air
ashore as a category 3 in the big bend region which hadn t seen anything like this ever. dana: even before i think in the 1800s is when governor ron desantis said might have been the last time this area saw one. not the most populated area but people are in the evacuation zone there. many people left. some were left behind. you have to imagine they are undergoing quite a bit of impact right now. bret: the hurricane is lashing the coast near keaton beach bringing with it the potential for catastrophic storm surge. forecasters are calling this storm nothing short of unprecedented because since 1851 as far back as weather records go, the state s gulf coast has never seen anything like this. dana: right now the life threatening storm is packing winds near 125 miles-per-hour prompting tornado warnings and alarms and impacting millions of people trying to cope with imminent danger.