he is executing that and has the right tone, not over exciting to people and it appears he and the mayor started communications and that will work for the benefit of the people. at the end of the day people need to take their own risks. can you live a few days without electricity? is your house in that zone that might flood? will your home flood. more people from the surge and the water from the storm that we do from the wind. neil: that is true, proven in one disaster after another. thank you very much. good luck to all. neil: lieutenant general russell honoray. parents heading to stores as kids are back to class, buying a lot of school supplies that could cost a lot more in 24 hours.
communities to the impact of surge and any community that gets brushed by the eye of the storm along the coast, use a couple numbers for reference. when katrina went into biloxi the surge water was at 28 feet above sea level. it literally cut through buildings, was the power of that surge. i don t want to alarm people but listen to local officials, it is time for those local officials and local weather people to talk about the impact of surge because now we have more people that may be affected by coastal surge. elevation in brevard county is 19 feet in miami nine. when you get to jacksonville, all of that is low-lying areas. that surge water went into new orleans at 18 feet. and it overtopped the levees.
visualizing what 8-foot surge will be. right now they are using the word evacuation areas that they need to talk about the potential impact of the surge from florida through savannah, georgia. neil: i know you re a very modest man, got everyone together and i remember you are dealing at odds with the mayor, the governor and on and on and everyone had to be on the same page regardless and eventually they were but it didn t start out that way. how do you advise local, state officials going through on this? they all seemed to put the party thing aside and deal with the crisis at hand. what do you recommend? the florida public sets its tone. they left a good battle book as we call it in the military.
there are no levies in florida but there are a lot of canals people used to take their boats in and out through the ocean. all of those canals, that surge water could go in for miles. one thing i remember talking about at the time of katrina a slow-moving storm as karina katrina was and sticks around and surge becomes a bigger issue, flooding bigger than that and compounds itself. absolutely. i haven t walked the streets in this area, they made something people could relate to. telephone calls in tampa they put numbers on the pole. if they said eight feet surge, look at where the water will be if you have that surge. that is relative information. a lot of people have a hard time