deputies who were on duty in this county ever, normally, at one time. they had to call in the state police to help them because there were so few of them there to monitor it. but they just want people to know, if you are still here now, you are on your own. >> there's only so much they can do once the storm comes through. john berman, thank you very much. i want to go now to cnn's carlos suarez, he's live in tampa florida. carlos, where the conditions like where you are there on the ground? >> will, we are in for a wet and windy night here. in tampa bay. it's about half an hour ago we started seeing a line of thunderstorms associated with this hurricane make its way across hillsboro county. we expect this bad weather to continue into the night and into tomorrow, which is when we might start seeing some of the storm surge associated with this hurricane. that is the biggest concern from emergency officials at this hour. they are worried that the storm, which is going to pass hillsborough county and