through the calls as quickly as possible. i will reiterate that even though we have 911 calls, there s no one in distress that has not been taken care of. the ones in distress, we got to immediately. we have a lot of people called 911 saying i m trapped in my house. i m okay. but i need help. so they are 100% okay. we are going to get to those folks as fast as we can get our emergency access teams into them. the state emergency response team will continue to work around the clock to meet the needs of the survivors and initiate an efficient recovery process to communities impacted by hurricane idalia. we are actively working with our law enforcement partners to continue to conduct search and stabilize, as i have already mentioned. we have a recovery team that s already in the area. we activate our recovery team the same time we activate our
so we are encouraging our residents to shelter in place, stay off the roads and this will ensure the safety of citizens and first responders working through the storm. also it will allow our power companies to the get out there and restore power because we are likely to be without power for several hours or the next few days. you were tell ing before we came on that your town and the surround ing areas has a population of about 120,000 people. relatively small area so i m suspecting a lot of people know each other and this is a close nit area. have you and the people around you been a part of anything that is this strong, a hurricane this strong? i have not. and i think we would have to go back and look. once this recovery happens, we
tornado strength gusts and it pounding georgia with historic rains. its trail started this morning in keton beach. can residents go home again? i i don t know if it s there or not, but this right here, i don t know if i m going to have a house to go home. it s horrible. we have never seen this before. usually we come here and ride it out. this right here is bad. at this hour x hurricane idalia is barrelling through georgia. a flash flood emergency is in effect for the city. join ing me now is the public information officer, which includes the area, thank you for join ing me. you are inside the emergency
began pushing those crews into the impacted area. over 700 crew members, which includs 100 bridge inspectors, 1,100 generators and 250 pieces of equipment, we have been moving these resources into the impacted area so we can quickly address the needs, get the operations take care of and support the life-saving mission. in the main area of impact, we have nearly 1,000 bridges that have been inspected. we re focusing our efforts close to the coastline initially. we have several major roadways that go over the swauy river and others. state road 24 is impassable because of high water. 51 is also impassable because of high water. burr you bridge crews are inspecting most of the bridges, as we speak, and we ll be finishing those operations within the next hour. we made a lot of progress. we re going to continue to do so. we moved the generators that are needed into the area. most of the traffic signal
both avenues, both parts of this boulevard. it started to make its way earlier this morning into some of the first few blocks inland from tampa bay, which was extremely angry earlier today. the factors here for storm surge have all come together, unfortunately, because we have this full moon that s also coinciding with king tide. and also that surge of water behind an incredibly powerful hurricane and the inland flood threat that s working together to create this increasing storm surge threat along the tampa bay region. now the forecast was 4 to 6 feet. that was realized. some preliminary records were et set for storm surge in and around this area. and you don t have to live here to necessarily understand how impactful this can be. this was lapping up against people s doorsteps, their front yards. and that was threatening their home, your property. the storm means business. it s not exactly over just yet,