unfortunately. if people have not left that area they are in deep trouble. if you haven t left certain pockets of clearwater beach you also may be in trouble as the wind pushes in. [horn] continues here this morning. the sun coming up in the next hour. we will get a better assessment of how many roads are actually underwater from this surge off the gulf of mexico, guys. brian: do you have any idea what that siren is? steve: it s a car horn. that is a horn. that is a horn from a vehicle that is inside of a garage, beyond my camera shot here. it happens. you know, anything happens in a hurricane. we will probably start to hear home alarms go off, too, as water potentially innun dates some of the homes. hopefully that doesn t happen but we do see that in these major hurricanes. and, by the way, this major hurricane, this is not the norm by any means for the big bend. it s historic. they just haven t seen it. it doesn t occur in that part of florida. and tampa, by the way, as you
ainsley: sean s his parents had to put him in the home. i had to transport my mom with her oxygen. janice: her mom did get out of tallahassee because her father does have respiratory issues and he does need oxygen. they had to move inland. it s a decision that you have to make if you live in florida. you know, potentially with these devastating systems. you have to we give you the information, but it s up to you to do with the information and protect your family and your property. steve: as we look at cedar key, and that s what you guys were talking about, yesterday and now we have moved on to tampa. yesterday, in cedar key. state troopers went door to door, knocked on every door in the town and said we are expecting a storm surge of 16 feet. leave now because if you don t leave now, tomorrow, when the storm is hitting, we cannot come and save you until the storm, i think the wind gusts are below 40 miles per hour. something like that. so, you know, it s too late for the people
staged. we re also arranging more fuel to come in by truck, just to make up for whatever may not be coming in through the normal course of business with things like the port of tampa being closed. and so there s a lot of fuel that has been arranged to be here and our goal is to not have any major fuel interruptions. terms of communications, there s 500 plus star link internets ready for deployment to places that need to be. there s already been almost 250 that have been deployed so as affected areas need that connectivity, florida division of emergency management is going to work to provide that. we just lost the feed of governor ron desantis, he s giving updates on what is now a category 4 storm from tallahassee. we ll take you bake to him as
of this storm as soon as conditions safely allow. we have prepositioned aircraft in miami and west palm beach and they will be the first ones to respond in the wake of the storm. yesterday, these flight crews conducted overflights of the western florida area up to the billing bend area. and made call-outs to mariners to seek shelter as well as familiarize ourselves with the landscape prestorm arrival. so we re ready to go. we are also assembling our flood response teams from both inside and outside the state so we can assist float the florida team and fema with the urban search and rescue also ready to launch aircraft for air time search and rescue in the city of tampa and big bend area as the storm passes our second priority is the reconstitution of ports and waterways really critical to our marine transportation system, so urgently needed so that resources can make it to the communities in need.