leave their homes. in happens in every single storm. you can understand why, because sometimes you just say, listen, i am going to be here for the long haul, i am going to take care of what i can. what can you tell us about emergency management and what will be in in place in case someone is under able to make it out as soon as now? is able to leave now? well, we have teams standing by. we have people that need help. we have 11 buses taking them to approved shelters now. they can call the number pinellas county, which is 727-464-4333 if they kneed transportation. do it now. we have people standing by, as does the county, help you get out of there. i can tell you a quick story. a friend stayed on sanibel last year. it took him his garage through six feet of water. he lucky to be alive. he watched his two cars wash
local residents and visitors in pinellas county. emergency information is available for us through alert pinellas, disaster.pinellas.gov. we have our county information center open around the clock, starting at 8:00 a.m. if there s some worried friends, folks, that have questions, they can call this evening and they can call 727-464-4333. we have the availability for residents who are deaf or hard of hearing can contact our county information center via online chat. again, that s at disaster.pinellas.gov. i think you made a really, really good point. thank you for giving all that information. it s really important to people so they know exactly what they need to do. those people who have children, those people who have pets, treat your pets like you would treat your kids. figure out where to go, bring them with you, do not stay in a