As soon as the storm passes, they will be deployed to power outages. we cover that pinellas county area and we have about twenty,000 customers in this pinellas county area, customers without power in the state of florida. ashley: how long can outages last? right now, the outages in pinellas county, damage may not be as great, we cover up through mexico beach area. some territory is going to get hit with a cat 4 storm, that damage will be more serious, wires and poles down and that will take longer to repair. ashley: anna gibbs, thank you for your time. todd: with that, bring in michael waltz, joins us now, and
Is category 4 here at the last minute and sometimes stubborn ness of people that don t want to leave their stuff. i can replace stuff, i can t replace you. the new floridians are usually scared and head to far north places. i m worried about those too stubborn to leave. todd: all eyes on florida, thoughts and prayers with you folks getting ready for the historic storm. thank you. turning to the race for the white house, trump teaming claim who is the rising threat. wait until you hear how much donald trump raised after his mug shot went public. ashley: we are following hurricane idalia before it makes landfall in just a few hours.
Once it is over? every time we have a storm, we bring thousands of trucks and crews from across the country. they are here and waiting for the storm to pass. we have trucks near the villages at ocala and tropicana field. ashley: as far as inventor and he supplies, do you have everything you need? are you looking for more? we have supplies throughout our service territory, we keep them as far away as possible, we don t want the storm to blow through the materials, we bring materials as close as we can, far enough away so they are not in the way of the storm.
Trajectory and track. the flow is offshore, wind is blowing toward gulf of mexico at the moment, however, the center will approach this area in the next hour to hour and a half and winds will switch around and we ll have to watch for major water push that will come inland. we have not seen much in the way of people in thisirria, a great thing. we were here yesterday talking to residents and taylor county deputy. there is mandatory evacuation in effect with this category 4 approaching. looks like most people took the warning seriously. todd: the word unprecedented keeps popping up, how does this storm compare to others you have covered? this is different because of
Responders, they can t answer 911 calls, we have bridges shut down. that part of the state is probably the historic low point of the areas susceptible to storm surge. first time this area has been hit in my 17 years of being here. todd: you are in emergency operation center, you have crews throughout the state of florida. any reports of damage or other from crews at this point this early in the storm? no, the guys and gals we have they are staged around the state. we have 900 urban first responders ready to deploy out and canine unitses will accompany them. the dogs have ability to help