west palm beach. she is fearful this street is going to get flooded. we see some water on the street now, but we re just now getting to the beginning of the wind activity and the storm surge on the intercoastal waterway, which is just over here. we re really getting nailed here with some intense wind and rain. also, jake, i just talked to one of the top fire chiefs of west palm beach. i asked him about the construction cranes that are right near here. you might be able to get a glimpse of one over my left shoulder, people have been very concerned about that especially since we reported that crane cracking in miami. the fire chief tells us they have just done a survey of these cranes. they re okay for now. they re monitoring them closely, but there are apartment buildings right next to these cranes some of whom in these apartments have evacuated. others have not. we re going to be looking at these cranes very closely.
longer are they going to be going through this? and this isn t even the eye of the storm or close to it. this is not the closest approach of the eye of the storm here. i would say we get this for another six hours before it oven starts to go down. and that s the real reason we don t want you ipyour home if it s not a strong house. this is a long duration. this goes on and on and on. now, i want you to just think about this for a second. grab a cup of coffee and blow on the top of a cup of coffee and try to cool it off. the waves your breath makes will blow the coffee to the other side of the coffee cup. that s what s happening here. the waves because of the wind is blowing the ocean on the other side of the coffee cup. and there s our kyung law rights there. what s happening here is the water is piling up, but it s going around here and piling
is lapping over right now. we actually have seen a dock detach and into the bay here. so that s what we ve seen in terms of water. as far as the winds, jake, this is as strong as i ve seeb. i mean the wind has not blown like this yet here in miami. and chad says we re going to see another 10 to 15 miles an hour over the next couple of hours. that s going to be pretty strong. and we know kyung law is covering the storm from the hotel, right outside the hotel. but she s staying in that hotel, and that is where she can get to safety at a moments notice if need be. what about you? people at home are watching and wondering about you. how quickly can you get out of there and to a safe place? talking about my mom and dad who are both watching right now, we are on slightly higher
predicting as much as 6 feet of storm surge. but there are some mandatory evacuations for some 600,000 people in miami county, jake. and those people were told to evacuate because of storm surge, not the wind. there s nothing you can do. once the water starts coming, if you live on one of the bottom floors, the water is going to come into your participant. if you live on one of the higher floors, you won t be able to get out and first responders won t be able to get to you. hopefully, again, most people dist did listen to those warnings and get out. people now sheltering inland, hopefully not helping to tampa to shelter because that s a whole not world of problems you re going to get in the few hours. but it is remarkable even though the eye of this storm did hit miami, there s been concern about this storm moved west, heading towards fort myers and
pushing this way on the other side. we have a 4 foot inverse surge in naples. the water is down 4 feet from being sea level. and that will rush back in as the eye goes by, and then the water will rush out of miami. for now we have at least five or six more hours of miami with the water rushing onshore, pushing in the same direction with more water trying to drain out. that s never going to drain because the rain is blowing from this direction so hard. and then we get up toward tampa, sarasota, this is where we re going to see the significant wind damage, too. wind 125. what we re showing you on tv is like 70, 75. i know burma was still in the wind, but he was kind of sheltered. i know there s a building to protect him a little bit. but still all that debris that was blowing around berman, we