COUNTY ON THE OTHER COAST. WILL BE BACK AFT >> WERE CONTINUING TO TRACK
HURRICANE IAN AS THE EYE WALL DI
>> ALIVE WILL COME FLORIDA’S
WEST COAST TO COLLIER COUNTY TO
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, THE INTENT
STORM NOT EVEN MAKING LANDFALL
JUST YET.
LET’S LOOK AT THIS VIDEO OUT OF
SANIBEL LOOK AT THAT FLOODING
THIS WAS SENT BY CITY OFFICIALS
SHOWING THE EXTREME FLOODING
THAT HAPPENED AS THE EYE WALL
BEGAN COMING ASHORE THERE.
>> THAT IS JUST THE BEGINNING
MORE VIDEO NEW OUT OF MARCO
ISLAND, ABOUT TWO AND HALF FEET
OF WATER IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD
THIS VIDEO SET OUT BY STATE
DEPARTMENT.
HOPEFULLY THOSE PEOPLE HAVE
EVACUATED.
DON ENABLES THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT SENDING OUT ANOTHER
PICTURE THIS IS ON TWITTER
SHOWING THE DEVASTATION ALREADY
HAPPENING IN THAT CITY THEY
ANNOUNCED THERE IS A CURFEW
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
BACK AT HOME THE STRONG WIND HAS
CAUSED DAMAGE AS WELL BUT MUCH
OF IT WAS LAST NIGHT AS THE
STORMS ROLLED THROUGH FOR THE
LOCAL TIME WHETHER AUTHORITY
RIGHT HERE BY OUR SIDE TO TRACK
IAN FOR US.
>> WE WILL JOIN US TO BRING THE
LATEST FORECAST IN JUST A MINUTE
BUT FIRST WE WANT TO GET TO
TAMPA AND ERIE SITE AS HURRICANE
IAN DRAINED WATER ACROSS THE
TAMPA BAY EARLIER TODAY, LOCAL
TEN DENISE FERNANDEZ AS LIVE AS
THE STORM PICKS UP OVER THERE.
>> WE’RE GOING TO SHOW YOU SOME
GREAT VIDEO OF TAMPA BAY WITH
THE WATER SORTA BEING SUCKED
OUT.
I WANT TO PAINT A PICTURE FOR
THOSE OF YOU AT HOME OF WHERE WE
ARE AND WHAT WERE DOING THIS
MOMENT.
WE ARE JUST SOUTH OF TAMPA
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WHICH IS
BURIED NEAR THE WATER, WHEN IT
COMES TO HURRICANE IAN THIS IS
VERY MUCH A STORM OF WHERE YOU
ARE, THAT WILL DETERMINE WHAT
SORT OF EFFECTS YOU GET.
BEING NORTH TAMPA VERSUS SOUTH
TAMPA WE WILL HAVE A COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE.
THAT I IS MAKING ITS WAY SOUTH,
AN HOUR AND A HALF SOUTH BUT
WE’RE DEFINITELY FEELING THE
WIND GUST WE ARE HERE AT THE
HOTEL FOR THE VERY REASON YOU
CAN SEE THE WIND PICKING UP,
THAT IS BECAUSE GUESTS HAVE
EXCEEDED 45 MILES PER HOUR AND
THAT’S WHEN OFFICIALS SAY YOU
SHOULD NOT BE AFTER YOU SHOULD
BE INSIDE HUNKERING DOWN, WE OF
COURSE ARE LISTENING TO THOSE
OFFICIALS.
WE WANT TO SHOW YOU THE VIDEO WE
SAW EARLIER TODAY TO GIVE YOU AN
IDEA OF THE EFFECTS OF IAN AS
STORM IS APPROACHING.
>> AN OMINOUS SCENE UNFOLDING
ACROSS TAMPA BAY.
SKIES DARKENING, WINDS STARTING
TO AROUND WITH BANDS OF RAIN OF
HURRICANE IAN COMING THROUGH.
EVEN SO RESIDENTS WANT TO BEHOLD
THE SITE OF THE BAY THAT IS
CERTAINLY UNCOMMON THIS IS THE
REVERSE STORM SURGE, WITH THE
WIND DIRECTION PUSHES THE WATER
OUT.
THE LAST TIME WE SAW SOMETHING
LIKE THIS WAS IN 2017 DURING
HURRICANE IRMA.
>> , COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN, I’M
ON THIS WATER EVERY DAY, I’VE
NEVER SEEN IT LIKE THIS.
>> THE LOW-WATER IMPACT IN ALL
AREAS OF TAMPA THIS IS EXACTLY
WHAT WERE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE
HAVE THE REVERSE STORM SURGE,
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED THE WATER
GET SOLO, THESE BOATS IN THE
FOREGROUND BUT EVENTUALLY THE
WIND WILL SWITCH DIRECTION IN
THE WATER WILL RISE BACK UP.
BUT ASIDE EVERY LEAF, NOT JUST
YET, HURRICANE IAN STILL HAS
UNLEASHED ITS FULL ROUTE WHICH
WHY OFFICIALS ARE WARNING
RESIDENTS TO HUNKER DOWN.
>> WHAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING IN
REAL TIME RIGHT NOW, THE WIND
GUST, WHEN IT COMES TO THE RAIN
WE HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED HEAVY
DOWNPOURS JUST YET.
IT’S BEEN A CONSTANT RELENTLESS
RAIN THAT CAN PUSH YOU AROUND IF
YOU’RE NOT PROTECTED.
HERE’S THE THING WITH TAMPA
RIGHT NOW, PEOPLE ARE BREATHING
A SIGH OF RELIEF BECAUSE THE
STORM SURGE WILL NOT BE AN ISSUE
FOR TAMPA.
THAT DOES NOT MEAN THE OUT OF
THE WOODS WHEN IT COMES TO
FLOODING THERE STILL EXPECTING 8
IS A REGULAR STORM, DEFINITELY
IS A PLACE SUSCEPTIBLE TO
FLOODING.
AND I COULD COME A LOT OF WIND
DAMAGE IN THE POWER OUTAGES,
RIGHT NOW I TELL YOU WE HAVE NOT
EXPERIENCED THAT, THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE ACROSS HILLSBOROUGH
COUNTY AND FIDELIS COUNTY
ALREADY EXPERIENCING THE POWER
OUTAGES.
OF COURSE WE WILL BE HERE ALL
DAY LONG THE STORM IS MOVING
THROUGH AND YOU CAN CHANGE AND
AS SOON AS WE GET INTO MORE
INFORMATION OF COURSE ON THE
SITUATION WE WILL BRING IT RIGHT
TO YOU.
WE ARE REPORTING LIVE FROM
TAMPA, GINNY’S FERNANDEZ, LOCAL
TEN NEWS.