the real problem is the surge as we ve been hearing down there. yeah, certainly that has the potential to kill the most people. if we talk 12 to 16 feet above ground level. i m six feet tall. that s 6 to 10 feet above my head. not a survivable event. we asked people to evacuate those areas if they re told to do so. the surge threat will continue with 4 to 5 feet of inundation in tampa. the heavy rainfall threat and downstream storm surge and wind surge into georgia and the carolinas tonight and tomorrow. bret: we ll check back in later. dana: let s bring in citrus county sheriff. thank you for being here. what are you seeing or hearing from your folks on the ground? we ve got a saturation of our patrol deputies across citrus
executive office of the governor. he was here yesterday was it yesterday? i m losing track of time. i believe it was yesterday morning when we when sarasota county was ground zero, so to speak. we were in the track. everybody thought we would get the devastating surge here. he was here immediately in the morning with the director, with the general from the national guard, with the transportation secretary. we did a press conference. that s when we announced that we added another evacuation area because of the surge threat increasing. he said to me and my team, whatever you need, we re going to be there. we have the assets. kevin has been talking to other state emergency management directors and the governor has been talking to other governors and they lined up through emac, the emergency assistance compact, resources and personnel from other states to come in as
getting the message if you re in that low lying area or a coastal area you, need to move now. because the potential of two feet of rain in 48 hours combined with the storm surge that bill weir was just laying out, what could it look like? what could that mean for your city? it means we ll see water in places we ve never seen it before. when you talk about 10 or 15 inches of rain on top of the surge, that is unprecedented. no infrastructure is build for that. so we could be looking at impacts to our sewer system, to wastewater and so that is what folks need to understand. that we ve never seen this level of surge threat before. and they need to respond to that in the way that that makes sense. so one of the concerns is one of the concerns with this one is just how slowly it seems to be moving or it is anticipating it will move over the area.
dangerous. it s when tit picks up debris ad throws that debris that the wind becomes dangerous. and one of the concerns that we are going to have here with this hurricane is torrential downpours. you know, lots of rain. you know, once it comes ashore and then, that wind and that surge threat starts to subside a little bit. there is still the threat of just, you know, what flooding over the land from how much rain that this tropical system is just going to dump on the southern-louisiana coast and all the way up into tennessee. or mid mid parts of the united states. so, what what are you going to be looking for? obviously, it s calm where you are right now. what are you going to be looking for as signs that things are picking up? what what are going to be the indicators to you over the next, i don t know, 18 hours? so i am watching the radar. the the infrared radar imagery. looking at you can see now at this this storm is starting to form that very defined eye. you can
west right now, it has had a significant impact in places around new orleans. that significant impact in places around new orleans- significant impact in places around neworleans. ., ., ., ., ., new orleans. that two to four macro metres storm new orleans. that two to four macro metres storm surge new orleans. that two to four macro metres storm surge combined - new orleans. that two to four macro metres storm surge combined with l metres storm surge combined with rainfall, the big question when you think back to hurricane katrina 16 years ago will be a canny strengthen things then turn protect the city? will they hold the brunt of this hurricane? will they hold the brunt of this hurricane? , ., ., , ., ., hurricane? there is good news on two fronts, hurricane? there is good news on two fronts. first. hurricane? there is good news on two fronts, first, there hurricane? there is good news on two fronts, first, there was hurricane? there is good news on two fronts, first, the