around, checking his house. a lot of the folks here had boarded up their windows. you re not going to be able to see that in the dark. but a lot of people prepared here. so much of the tampa bay area was built once in a century hurricane made land fall after they had been booming so long. even tampa general hospital built on an island there. they were expecting the worst. the storm surge was going to be the worst part of it. the mayor probably talked about that. they re not expecting any longer that eight-foot storm surge which was going to come ashore and flood a lot of the coastline. really they re going to be waking up in much better shape than many of them thought they would be in when they went to bed. i also point out we ve seen the power out everywhere. that s also something they ll be dealing with this morning. everywhere across the state that will be one of the top
first thing we ll talk about is the track of the storm. people are worried about what was going to happen in georgia with the storm. the winds have died down as we expected. tropical storms can still, especially in areas with trees, knock out power. we ll cross the border 2:00 p.m. today into southern portions of georgia. we could get additional power outages. by the time we get to 1:00 a.m., a little less than 24 hours from now, once winds get down to 40 miles per hour, we should stop knocking trees down. not too many power outages in here. it s more southern georgia. piling water on the coast acr, t of water on the st. john s that exits up here around jacksonville. with that we have a lot of problems. we ll still see some flooding and water in homes because of that. and the heavy rainfall that s