to protect them and keep the damage to a minimum. but we know that, again, it s this water that really is the focus of the story here and what officials are really concerned about, especially when you have such a vital resource like the only trauma hospital in the tampa bay area sitting on an island that is in a zone a evacuation area. thankfully there are some tools that they re bringing in to play with this storm to try to really prevent a catastrophic event here. the fencing you can sort of see across the bay here, we got some video of earlier today, essentially flood barriers that are now post up across the perimeter of tampa general hospital, mainly where their power source seems to be and around really their main entrances. it s called aqua fence. the company who developed that sort of barrier says it is actually built to only strengthen the more the water starts to build up. so the pressure from that water
situation. i can tell you that from about a little before 5:00 this morning when we were out already in the areas waiting for the arrival of this hurricane, things had changed very quickly, and so now, for example, you can still see, i mean, this is the parking lot of the hotel where we have been staying at where we have set up our center of operations. unfortunately, the entire hotel has been flooded. the whole first row of the hotel is flooded, and just a little while ago, chris, i was speaking with phil and brenda his wife who live about three miles from here on a little island, they did evacuate. this is a zone a evacuation area, and most people did evacuate. they evacuated, but they ve been able to get back thanks to their brother s airboat that they had to get to go in, but they describe what was it s really just an unbelievable experience of what people there dealt with.