storm surge or get caught in significant flooding. kevin guthrie will say a few words and then an update on the traffic situation. bill: a lot of information there. a warning to the residents of florida to heed the warnings that are going out right now. you don t need to travel hundreds of miles because they have shelters set up for you to take cover. dana: rob herrin stayed with us and listened to all of that. interesting to think that 100 years ago the area was very lightly populated and now you have so many more people that as you said right before we saw the governor, that area of florida has escaped the wrath of hurricanes over the last 100 years. this is very serious and very different now with that many people living in the area. rob. yeah, you are exactly right, dana. the population of the bay area, tampa bay area has grown
hotel. they are a space, small space for you, a cot so that you can be sheltered from wind and water and rain for whatever that duration is. bill: a storm this size moving pretty quickly 12 miles per hour. janice dean said it could slow down over the gulf of mexico. that s what you don t want, rob. gather more steam and energy. yeah. and that s the fear. we ve seen that happen with other hurricanes. i think i recall one that hit houston a few years ago just camped out. so the real fear is that storm surge that comes from the storm itself and if it sits it is projected to camp out for up to 12 hours in the tampa bay area. it will dump rain during that part. i know your folks before me said a foot to two feet of rain. just that is a flooding event
vulnerable region. dana: thank you so much for that. bill: want to bring the rob herrin from the hillsborough fire rescue. at the moment where do you think your situation is? well, hillsborough county fire rescue and our county is ready and prepared for the storm. we want to urge as has been said this morning, those residents in evacuation zones to please heed that warning. as mentioned, floridians can become comfortable and complacent. we need to take the storm seriously. it is the storm surge and those rainwaters and flooding that will follow that is the true danger here. dana: how many people have gone ahead and evacuated? it s been a slow trickle into our shelters. we have 43 shelters available and open throughout different parts of hillsborough county. we have started to see a little
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