that s treasure island over there. this bridge joins out two. that also ghost town. you know, when you are on a barrier island here, you are in tampa, you might say oh i will stick it out. if you are on a barrier island you are saying you know what? we will come back on a nicer day. brian: even any a hurricane the place is beautiful. ainsley: i know the surge continues. i was expecting to see all of those roads, all of those docks completely under water. i was expecting to see a lot of what we saw in harvey. guys, in this parking garage, by the way, this is where we spent the night in this parking garage over here. still with me, bob? i have got to be with bob now because we re connected. in this parking garage, you can t see them from here but they brought rafts. they brought canoes. they brought, you know, ski dos, whatever the heck it is because they expected to be in this road going up and down the road by not walking. steve: well, they were prepared.
jillian: we are not seeing a tonel of flooding. right here we have a little bit of localized street flooding on the corner. it s not significant. i would agree with what matt finn is saying but we have been seeing a little bit of it we have been driving throughout the morning on bayshore boulevard. we were on davis island earlier this morning. we have not seen any homes damaged by flooding. i m not saying that s the case everywhere. i m telling you what we have seen so far this morning. what we are seeing a lot of is a lot of down trees throughout the area. you are seeing a lot of debris and downed palm trees. you drive up a street and all of a sudden you have to stop and turn around because this is the situation. i think a lot of people are going to wake up in tampa feeling a bit relieved. we did not have the center of that what was left anyway of the eye of that storm did not hit here in tampa last night. a lot of people are feeling good about that. but, 12eu8, the sun is not up here
the bay. and that water obviously now back in here. so the concern at this point is going to be flooding. we have seen a little bit, a little bit of localized flooding this morning. just on street corners, things like that. nothing too major. we will keep an eye on this. because as people wake up this morning, they could still be seeing some flooding. even though it hasn t happened yet doesn t mean it s not going to. guys we ll keep you posted on that. the winds have been off and on. raining and still windy here in tampa. i will send it back to you. brian: jillian, i m watching it go up now in your conversation thought waves are getting high going through the barrier there. yes. they are. go ahead and go off me there and just show that we are just starting to see in the last maybe 20 minutes some waves crashing up here and yesterday i talked to a resident who was out walking his dog. and he said, i have seen waves come um here a couple feet high. that s not unexpected. that s not unu
hit by a hurricane, know your evacuation route. i want to show you tampa what jeff was talking about is the back sides of this storm. you can see that outer band now burning into tampa. we had this is on shore flow. yesterday we had offshore flow and we were seeing those pictures of the bay being pushed out which was fascinating but now the bay is coming back with these on shore these on shore winds. also, we are getting the push of surge across portions of north florida now and the carolinas and georgia where it s very vulnerable. so this is a widespread storm that s going to effect a lot of folk he is. also want to make mention not only the surge, which is going to be the biggest story really out of this storm. the keys were completely under water yesterday. parts of south florida especially the southwest side. we will continue to see damage reports from there. but the tornado threat is going to be ongoing as well. we saw many tornado reports yesterday all up and down the east co
tampa area on bayshore boulevard. tell us about where you are and what s happening there. jillian: we re in tampa on bayshore boulevard. take a look back here at the bay. it s getting pretty rough out here. i will tell from you eyeballing it, we have seen the water rise about a foot and a half the last few hours. we did go through high tide earlier this morning. all we have been talking about is the storm surge. you heard janice mention the storm surge over and over again this morning as well. if this area is going to flood. it s going to be because of this right here keeping an eye on it i want to show you video that we shot yesterday take a look at that it s from the bay and i posted it on twitter it went crazy viral because people could not believe what they were looking at. the bay was dry. i mean, and not just a small portion of it a lot of it i called janice yesterday and i said please explain to me what is going on. because penal were walking around saying i have never seen anyt