hitting the west coast of florida. where exactly? well, i have someone that can sort of talk to you about that. our derek van dam, meteorologist and reporterer extraordinaire, he is watching this from the sky and ground at beach level. let us know what s going on, derek. yeah, tcheck this out. the warm gulf of mexico waters, you know, i could walk literally for several hundred feet and i would only have water up to my knees here. this is a very shallow, shallow basin. and that water is so this coastline is so susceptible to storm surge, not only because the hurricane going to be feeding off of those above average water temperatures, but because of the nature of this coastline. i have a drone shot to help put that tin perspective. you saw phil mattingly s great representation of what 12 feet of storm surge looks like.