the building which is about 6 feet higher than us. how high up on your body did the water get? with a six-foot storm surge for hurricane hermine? it was chest high in our store, which is about 50 feet from our river. so i remember on for that storm, it was kind of up in the air that if it was going to turn into a hurricane, and we didn t prepare that much at all for hurricane hermine, and so we boarded up the doors that time for that hurricane. but i remember it was going to hit in the middle of the night. similar kind of like how this one is going the hit with the high tide in the middle of the night. but i had my my dad is y all go down there to check to see how high the water level is. i remember seeing it was foot over our little deck right here. man, we better go get my dad up and have him come down here. our house is literally right across the street. we get him up and walk him down here, and it s knee-deep in our store. and the water came in like a flash. and that was six
that hurricane was coming directly for us. and it was approximately six hours before where it made a hard right turn towards fort myers. if that were the case and it makes a hard right turn for us, we would be in much worse situation. so we get it. we understand it. and we know that that happened just a year ago. so that s why nobody is putting down their guard. what s the timing over the next 12 hours for the people of tampa? when will they know that it s okay to come back out? well, tomorrow when the sun is out, we re expecting the high tide to come in midday tomorrow. so we need to wait until tomorrow is done and the high tide is done and the storm surge is out before it s safe to come out. so your asks, to the people of tampa, your asks for tonight, for tomorrow is what exactly? stay inside. even if the sun comes out and the storm is passed, the storm surge, especially in the low-lying areas, in tampa specifically, the high tide is around noon tomorrow.
hurricane idalia, which is a category 2 hurricane which has just strengthened. the wind speeds are now at 105 miles per hour, and they are gaining. but it is not the wind that has people the most worried about this hurricane. it s the water. it is the storm surge, predicted to be 10 to 15 feet right where i m standing in steinhatchee. the steinhatchee river right now sat low tide. at high tide, it s another 5, 6 feet higher than where it is. add 10 to 15 feet on top of that, and the area where i am standing right now is feared to be just completely covered in water about eight hours from now. that is the concern along the florida gulf coast. about 45 minutes south of where i am in the town of cedar key, the mayor there issued his town and his people a stern warning. we re here to beg our
i m ashley strohmier in new york another round of north korean weapon test amid growing tensions in the pacific. two short range ballistic missiles launched over the waters of their eastern coast. they say it is in response to the return of the uss ronald reagan aircraft carrier to the region they blame the u.s. for spurring the recent escalatory weapons test by the hermit nation now growing concern about where the missiles were fired from with japan s defense minister saying they are investigating if the missiles were launched via submarine to increase threat of a targeted strike on the u.s. or its allies. now this tropical storm julia strengthening into a cat hurricane 1 today expected over nicaragua and then weaken as it rolls across central america before dissipating over pacific
. hello, i m dara brown. here s what s happening. u.s. forces are talated against isis-k. a spokesman for the central command said a drone struck and killed an isis-k planner. 13 u.s. service members and nearly 170 afghans were killed in thursday s suicide bombing at that airport e. hurricane ida hit cuba as a hurricane 1 and is expected to strengthen into a category 3 or 4 before making landfall sunday in louisiana. now, back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m natalie morales. it took less the than an hour for a jury to find richie wilder