even though the body of the storm is beginning to pull on off, that wind is driving that water in this direction. and if we take a look at the st. johns river under this polygon right now, it pulls all that water to the north right into jacksonville. you combine that with the high tide, which was about 2:00, and, again, the estimates are that we could even get another two to three feet higher as you mentioned. will we do so? that remains a question mark. but even as it is, that is very dangerous right now with respect to the flooding conditions in jacksonville already beginning to rise. and for a little historical p s pers perspective, the last time we set a record for water level like that cresting was after hurricane dora in 1964. you heard that police chief say in all his time there, or may have been the mayor in all his time there and he s been there 50 years, he s never seen anything like this. it was probably because he was a
young boy or not even born yet when dora came through. we re a foot and a half higher than those levels. now, let s back up just a little bit and talk about what we re expecting. river flooding. here is our legend right now. yellow, orange and pink. pink is for major flooding. let s take a look here. right here is the city of jacksonville. and if you take a look, it is loaded with sites where we have major flooding. the issue not only just limited to jacksonville by the way, it s up to the north as we head through sections of georgia and the carolinas. but here s a better picture of what the wind is doing. we ve combined again the wind direction with where it s taking this water. and it s just gotten no place to go. so it begins to spill on out. and that s what we re seeing. that s where we saw morgan in just a little or just a little while ago in those waters. storm surge expected four to five feet, rainfall 8 to 12 inches in some locations higher, and we just saw that high tide.
so the electrical crews that were staged prior to coming to the region sorry, we got a phone ringing here prior to kerry, you ve been on tv for like 72 hours straight. i m going to give you credit for losing your train of thought for every once in a while. go ahead. thank you. okay. so prior to the storm coming the florida power and light, which is the largest electrical company in the state of florida prestaged more than 17,000 linemen. they have actually just got some arriving here now to the island. there is no promise of any sort of timetable of when they will be able to return electricity to homes, but from jacksonville, which is as far north as you can get down through portions of tampa, down the west coast and then of course we know over on the east coast folks without power and in a state like florida power becomes important. i m going to take you over here, take a look at this condo here. so some of the people decided to stay in the condos. and you can see the ones t