that was the final number, we heard, we know now that most of western cuba is without power, officials working on getting the power back on, but that is going to be a very slow process, and flooding throughout much of you know, going from havana, west of the island. for an island as poor as this one, as lacking in resources, you know, if you get all of your belongings wet, if you have water come through, the roof feels catastrophic. you have to remind people watching, jim, what cuba faced was a far less powerful storm than what floridians are going to have arriving very very soon. even a tropical storm, a category 1 can be catastrophic. yeah, and the difference between a glancing blow and a direct hit. patrick ottoman and carlos suarez is right in the path of the storm. might not be quite a direct hit but certainly going to get a hit in tampa. storm surge the real threat there. i wonder how much are they
and we are now learning that number could be higher, perhaps 10 to 15 feet. joining us is eric, the owner of tony s seafood restaurant on cedar key. thank you so much for being with us. you re dealing with so much right now. you have moved away from cedar key. you have heard the warnings. can you tell us a little bit about how you prepared the restaurant, and how you prepared yourself? well, basically, we have done this before. seven years ago we had hermine in 2016, and the tidal surge was really bad. it got into the restaurant waist high. so we ve been down this road before. we do realize the seriousness of this, and all of our employees are out of town and safe. which is very good news. so you have dealt with this before, waist high water from storm surge before. now we re looking at, you heard
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