residents arrive. they are a chuckle at the moment but authorities expect that to pick up as they move into the ceiling. the advice is that residents who can should seek shelter with residents or relatives. we have seen people taking them, including as you might expect, homeless people here in the city of tampa who have nowhere else to go, the police and some of the other services out on the streets and warning them that they need to take shelter. i was here last year when hurricane ian came ashore a little further south from where i am now and again that the real damage was caused by the storm surge. a 12 foot storm surge along an area of low lying coast can really cause significant damage, that is what we saw this time last year and that is really what the authorities are mostly concerned about today. talk about hurricane mostly concerned about today. talk about hurricane ian last year and
our law enforcement officers going door to door to ensure that message is out and how serious it is to get out of those areas. a lot of discussion, of course, about the danger of the water that s coming, the storm surge. how dangerous could this storm surge be in your area, particularly if residents are not fleeing. it is dangerous. we saw with hurricane ian how life-threatening the storm surge can be for these type of storms. unfortunately for our neighbors to the north it is going more directly to the big bend area. we are going to see life-threatening storm surge potentially as the storm leaves our area. one ouf our biggest messages is don t just run back to your house when the storm passes because the surge from the bay is going to come back in after the storm passes in the tampa bay area. tampa has in the past narrowly dodged the path of hurricanes, for a century in fact. including the devastating hurricane ian last year.