of concerns, this is when the worst of that storm surge is happening. it looks like cedar key is in the four to six-not range but it s occurring as we speak. 16 feet you re getting up into a two-story building and started to answer my question with that image from tampa as we ve got daylight there which is the reporters said in the briefing did we dodge a bullet from some major population centers not being directly in the path, but, boy, it doesn t look like if you ask people at tampa general hospital installing the aqua fence, a ten-foot-high barrier to keep the storm surge away from their hospital to stay up and running. what are the likely impacts in tampa? tampa is a huge population center within all about ten feet of the gulf. and they have dodged so many storms. irma, ian last year. charlie.
how much more vulnerable does that make your area? we re a coastal area. we have our vulnerabilities. we love our bays. when these storms come we have the flooding from storm surge and heavy rainfall. we have our low lying areas. we plan for this every season starting june 1st. we update our procedures, learn about past storms. you are right. we ve been in our emergency operations center form hurricane irma in 2017, ian last year. and now with idalia, it s been three years. so we know our threats and we re always at the ready that when these situations occur, we re ready to respond. john, wishing you all the best in tampa, florida. thank you, sir. thank you. turning back to the big bend region at risk of catastrophic hits by hurricane idalia, we re joined by the sheriff of levy