a pretty low lying area. that storm surge they re preparing for, what exactly might that look like when it comes to the businesses and the homes in that area? reporter: well, to give you a sense of howe things look where we are right now, we re at a park that s surrounded by three bays, the old tampa bay, the tampa bay and then that third bay. what they re worried about, especially the folks in pinellas county, that storm surge is going to flood things no matter what. even if that forecast track ends up having ian moving parallel to tampa bay and the tampa area, they still believe we re going to see a lot of that water making its way inland. so they want folks to go ahead and come out and get these sandbags. the lines at these three locations were pretty long. it s our understanding they re going to continue to do this today and tomorrow and most likely into wednesday. however, emergency officials again have been telling folks, try to get this done early because we could
try to get this done early because we could see some of these effects starting tuesday. all right. very good advice to heed there. carlos, thank you. for a closer look at the path of the storm let s get straight to cnn meteorologist chad myers. chad, right now aiming for cuba. florida comes after. that s right. we do know where this is going for the next one and two days, but after the third day, the models are still not in agreement. the meteorologists are still not in agreement. it s a 75-mile-per-hour storm. here is cuba. we have patrick got man in havana. this will probably go around the western edge, a flatter area. because it s flat, it won t take any of the effort of the storm, won t take any power away. it will still be 120 miles per hour here. after this point in time, this is when the cone gets really big. it s because of the time. this is five days away. it s also because the models simply don t really get it quite yet. the models don t have anything