so, you know, i don t want to be somebody on record saying, anyplace has dodged a bullet until this thing has passed, until this is done. certainly in terms of where we have seen this storm heading, this hurricane heading over the last several hours, it is better news for tampa than might have been. had the storm been to the west of tampa and tampa been in the northeast quadrant, the north you know, the upper right quadrant of this hurricane you hear so much about, that would have been the worst case scenario for tampa. at a time yesterday, it looked like that might take place. so, the worst case scenario has not taken place for tampa. everything we ve heard over the last couple of hours from tom sater about the dispags of this storm, the disorganization of it and some of the questions about the storm and also what tom s tach said was an easterly push on this storm, all of that is better news for tampa than it might otherwise have been.
the water that s going to get blown up against their home all night. you ve just given an example of why people should stay in secure structures. why they should stay out of the elements. because it s safe in your home or a secured structure. once you step out there, you don t know what you re going to encounter. don t go anywhere be, because we re going to come back to you. imto go to tom sater in the weather center. what s happening in the clearwater area, tom, where we see our ryan young right now? dorngs ry don, ryan just had a gust of 78 miles an hour and the storm center is still 75 miles south-southeast so it s going to get worse. anderson in tampa had 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts. what we re noticing here, we re into the second half of this event now for florida. the center is now crossed into southern portion of our new tornado watch box, which we are having me.