From that update. But we want to get
to grant Gilmore because, Grant, normally
we are looking at the maps
that have some graphics there,
but you've got some pictures
for us. Well, I I tell you, Frank, I mean,
just what Malik was talking about,
it's incredible to see all
this water literally being
sucked or blown out of the Bay.
Let me show you why.
Here, look at these wind speeds.
Sustained winds in Saint Pete.
So that's at Albert Whitted Airport.
Sustained winds at 43 mph.
That's tropical storm force wind
gusts up to 58 mph. Typically.
That would be a severe thunderstorm warning,
and we're seeing that.
Coming in out of the Northeast,
it's lining up parallel with the
Bay and it's sucking the water
not just out of the Bay guys,
but out of the Hillsborough River.
Alright, we'll get to that in just a second.
So this is kind of where the Hillsborough
River River comes into and and comes
out into the Bay right down down Tampa.
There's there's TGH right there,
there's the Convention Center, usually got
the pirate ship right there at the dock.
Look at this, look at the Bay.
Look at those islands.
That's the bottom of the Bay.
That's the Bay floor.
All this water has been blown
out into the Gulf of Mexico.
So it's going somewhere.
It's going down to the southwest,
Florida, down towards Fort Myers,
where the surge is building up
to potentially 16 to 18 feet.
Tyler Moore over there Manning the camera.
Tyler,
are we able to zoom up a little bit more?
Is that as far as we can go?
If if you and Malik was right over here,
Malik was right over here where she
was showing you her vantage point.
But look at that island.
And then when we come back over here, Tyler,
let's go up into the river a little bit.
Let's let's zoom down.
Let's go down to where that bridge is.
There we go. Look at that right there,
right there by the dock.
You know, right there at the beginning
of Bayshore you've got that water.
So that's that's land.
That is land where you typically have
the river coming out into the Bay.
That is incredible. Yeah.
Yes. It's it's it's. I mean all along there,
all along there. That is
all land, all land, all
that water is being blown out.
It's draining. It's draining the Bay.
Let's go to armature works.
This is our weather camera at armature works.
Let me see if I can switch over to it. Here.
Look at this armature works over there.
This is a river, guys. This is a river.
And the water is being sucked
out of the river faster than the
river can flow to fill it back up.
So now you have, you have land you have.
That's where you would typically
see people kayaking right down
there on their paddle boards.
And now you've got Lance,
where we've had our boat parades after our
multiple championships and look at that.
That
is incredible.
We saw the images down in Venice.
That's the opposite there, right?
Exactly right. Exactly
right. The exact opposite.
We have winds out of the
Northeast here in Tampa Bay.
Meanwhile, you have southwesterly
winds blowing all the water that.
Is well, leaving our Bay and
going into their coast just,
just absolutely astounding
the force of nature.
Like, yeah, Tyler,
Zoom in there.
Look at that.
Yeah.
This will quickly rush back though, right?
Well, maybe not as quick as you might think.
As long as the storm stays to our SE,
our winds will stay out of the Northeast,
which means this will just
continue to drain, drain, drain.
We're, we're kind of near low tide.
We're coming off of low tide,
so it's low anyway, except for the river.
The river doesn't really have
much of a tide this high up,
but we'll start to see the water levels rise.
So yes, it will rise, but it may
not be quite as quick as it drained.
Just because of the fact that
the wind speeds are really are
forcing this and blowing it,
blowing and blowing it, blowing it out.
Gosh, we could look at this all day,
couldn't we?
Well, we gotta times incredible.
We yeah, we know. You'll show
the opposite a little bit later.
Yeah, we will.
We have a news conference that we
have to get to at 11:30, right?
That's what we got.
So we got four moments. Tyler,
let's do a quick tour of the radar.
Let's show people what's going
on around the area because I
know it's not just this,
this is fascinating to look at,
but this is what you're
getting impacts with.