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as the pressure goes down, the winds go up. it is going to make landfall likely as a category 3 hurricane. not that far from steinhatchee. probably to the north of crystal river. and then even make significant wind all the way into georgia. we re not going to see any storm surge from st. pete in tampa until the storm gets due west of you and the winds come from this direction. because right now they re pushing offshore. pushing that water away. but that s going to change because of the circulation of the storm. six inches of rainfall in places that people may be evacuating to that could cause some flash flooding here. so you have to be very careful where you re going with this storm and just trying to stay out of the way of that surge, and that surge is going to be the most significant part of this today and into tomorrow because there s no place for this water to go. it can t keep going. it has to stop. it s going to go up the st. marks river. it s going to go to apalachicola. it s go
make sure you have provisions for about three or four days because you could be isolated. i will show you a little bit why. this is a low-lying area, even the you can see behind, me this is the st. marks river. starting seal a lit of rain, raindrops from the initial bands of the hurricane coming this way. if we are lucky, during this live shot, you might see flashes of lightning on the horizon, which are really cold look at at night. it s not cool, of course, if you are being pounded by 80 mile per hour winds and getting a ton of rain on, but that coming in the next few hours. what makes this unique is that it s so low-lying, you ve got three waters converging rate here. this is the st. marks river, the waukesha river is a few yards downstream, and then where i am, this is the appalachian bay. it has not had a hurricane of this kind of strength in recorded history come right up the bay. so there is no real barometer to which to measure how this area can absorb a hit that it is about