. Thousand National Guardsmen on . Standby. Watching this storm. walter its now 5 . . Thanks for joining us. Im Walter Allen Jen and im jen epstein. Weve got a five oclock advisory to talk about. Lets go right to dave. jen it seems like weve been watching the storm . Forever. But you cant get apathetic about it. wally flooding is a very real possibility for many bay area communities. And northern pasco county is already under a hurricane watch. wally fox13s Shayla Shayla this area . Knows flooding. Its been through it a few times. What are they doing to prepare . This me right now sely. Thetorm cldmpact unty tonignto morning. Some of the ggest conser include heavy rain and high wind. We learned erted peoplen w lying areas prerefor possible evacuations. I want to take you to this video captured tudaes wally thanks, shayla. Potential concerns for several bay area counties. And sandbags are available at several locations. From hillsborough to citrus. We have those locations, posted on our
Its quiet now, iont be later this afternoon. Wt for evening commute as well. He aircraft is flying winds at. Around, the pressure is falling. The storm is likely strengthg. Enin it could become a category one hurricane and even the latest computer models, the oneshat ru kes i to make a hurricane as it just east of alachicola by very early tomorrow morning so even though you look outside now, everything is quiet, i want you to understd tha the potential impacts around here are going to be later today and tonight and the Tropical Storm warning continues from pasco county north. Notice how this is what the wd speed is around t center of the storm, bringghe Tropical Storm force winds innit. This may be a case where its quiet until early this winds and the rains come in theres yourrocal sto warning. Ive got a lot t talk b. Coastal flood advisories, surf advisories and so muchmore. A lot of people haveo get out the door. Even though its not raining, we have a few issues on the roads. Vanessa
Please avoid. It looks like we have a road ranger now just showing up on scene. Were waiting to see how they handle the situation. We also know that walter is going to be out there giving us a live report as soon as he can. But big mess out there. Drivers, if you do have to exit here, make sure youre doing it and exit earlier. Dont go all the way over here. Youll get stuck. We have standing water reports northbound 275 near 175 so passing by tropicana field. Left center lanes are blocked. P, northbound and southbound on 2 5 itself. We also have an overturned semi truck causing northbound lane block blockage. Well get to those congestion points. You can see 275 southbound coming into the interchange well into the red. This is very, very heavy for this time of morning. Leave early, almost 30 minutes of a drive, 10 minutes mlk to 275 and 16 minutes fowler avenue southbound. Dave . Dave this rain is definitely slowing things down. A couple of minutes ago, a flood advisory for Pinellas Coun
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