expecting water to come in, but if you notice where the water is right now, it s over that small embankment there, that s going to be a business at some point, they are planning to put a business in there, but let me give you a look at how choppy things are here, and how high the water has gotten. this was well below this area here, well below, you had to really lean down to get close to the water. now it s coming up and it s almost completely onto that. this is nothing compared to what is being expected here. the highest the water has ever gotten here in crystal river is about four feet above the flood zone. the entire community is a flood zone. it s in a flood zone, why they have told people to evacuate. at this point in time this is a wind event right now. it has been raining as well as the bands come in, but the real fear is the water, and what do officials always say? you run from the water, you hide from the wind. hopefully people have heeded the warnings, as this storm
Is over my right shoulder. the pictures speak for themselves, this area that has completely flooded and it has encroached on homes as well. i m going to have my camera man walk with me and paint this picture because the surge is still coming in from tampa bay. we checked one of the tidal gauges near where we re located, it is currently at record levels, 5 1/2 feet of storm surge near the tidal surge gauge that is closest to me. that is incredible. records go back to 1991. so this is almost a symphony of cataclysmic events. not only a powerful major hurricane pushing up the water across the eastern sections of the gulf of mexico, a shallow water basin, by the way, but we also have inland flooding that is moving from the from the ground towards the ocean. so these working together in