tampa has never been directly hit by a major hurricane in the modern era when the population has just boomed in that area and looks for the most part when it s said and done as far as damage is considered, tampa will say, wow, we dodged another one. it looked like for awhile this could be headed straight there. this is as bad as it will get in the tampa area. the overwash that you ll see. i d say anywhere that s about elevation six feet or under, probably has dealing with water issues in tampa. all the elevations above six feet should be just fine which includes a lot of the downtown area but it s amazing. you talk to anyone in tampa. they know they re due and eventually they ll get their storm but looks like with this one, they finally lucked out. other concerns, i did want to show this map. this is a peak wind gust map we re expecting and this is just updated. the possibility of the forecast for perry in the next hour or two is wind gusts up to 127 miles per hour. that s what is comi