path of the storm. reporter: and because of this forecasted path, we expect all of this water to just come into the tampa bay area which again the concern is that it will lead to a good amount of flooding, we re told at least 60,000 sandbags have been distributed in pinellas county. and clearwater where you are, peak storm conditions expected i think around midnight tonight, is that right? tell us what you are expecting there. reporter: we already had our first kind of initial impacts from the storm, right? we had the outer rain bands impacting us about an hour ago, we got a brief gust of wind about 40 miles per hour, heavy downpours of rain and then it came to an end. that is what we should expect to see gradually increase before conditions completely