finding the flooding that you have been talking about, we re finding that that is the biggest concern and we re starting to deploy our high water vehicles out into the areas. we ve had some calls from a mobile home park that is flooded. we re going to have to go as these people wake up and find that they are kind of stranded by the water, we ll be going out and effecting the rescues throughout the morning. that is what we anticipate. the this morning storm has been different than earlier. it is way past us but yet we re getting this push, we re on the bad side of the storm and we re getting this push into the bay area. it is you know, you ve shown scenes of bay shore boulevard in tampa and we re eseeing the sam thing here in the low areas and some of the mobile home parks. we have bridges closed. so we re limited on access right now.
coinciding with the passage of the storm at its highest peak intensity and it did push water into the bay, but there was no flooding. we scouted the area in the usual places, bay shore boulevard in tampa, south tampa, no flooding. the city of tampa reporting no major incidents. so that s good news. obviously still electricity within this area. there are 13,000 people without power within the state of florida, but that s really in the big bend area where they are bracing for the brunt of this storm still hurricane warnings located in that region. now, the threats are not over just because the winds are gusting and the rain is still falling in some locations. the threat of tornadoes spinning up, heavy rain fall, causing flash flooding and then we need to focus on the storm as it races along the eastern sea board. people vacationing to the carolinas as well as coastal georgia. you re up next, you re on par. the storm is traveling your way in a weakened state but still one to be reckon wit
but still certainly people are on high alert this morning. brianna, john, back to you. keep riding it out as we await more impacts here. randi kaye, thank you so much. let s go live now to tampa and our meteorologist derek van dam who is is there on the ground. folks have been told as randi notes to stay indoors to stay off the roads, derek. reporter: yeah, brianna, good morning to you, good morning to our viewers. you know, that s good advice, but obviously not everybody listening to that because you can see the causeway and kennedy boulevard behind me people still driving about. the city slowly starting to awaken. there are still tropical storm warnings within this area. the tampa international airport still closed at the moment or no airlines flying in or out until 10:00 a.m. this morning. that s what they ve reported to us. but we have been spared the worst from what was tropical storm and what was a hurricane at one stage, downgraded to a tropical storm overnight, of course.
inches. we are told by clearwater police that there was some flooding in the streets here, also some trees down on cars. they re expecting to see more of that as they make their way around this morning. they want people to stay home. so there is some minor flooding and some power outages as well. so the story really was rain and some minor flooding but also the storm surge very concerning because the storm came through at about 2:00 a.m. as the high tide was hitting about 3:00 a.m. so the two of them converged and pushed a lot of water into the streets here. and i should note that the national guard is ready, clearwater police ready. they have their humvees out, high water vehicles. they re ready to put helicopters in the air if they can safely. and they also are doing some search and rescue to make sure folks are okay. but the message still this morning is to stay home, let s make sure everything is okay in this area. the last time tampa bay was hit by a major hurricane was 100 years