Eye Wall Wind News Today

Biggest threat is. unlike harvey where flooding rains were the biggest threat, this will have flooding rains. its the innone dajs of seawater. its called storm surge. while the numbers might not seem too impressive, five to eight feet, these are very impressive. in central and southwestern florida we havent seen a surge like this especially in 100 years especially in the tampa area. 8 to 10 feet from fort myers down to marko island. this is a very heavily populated area. very vulnerable to storm...

Concrete barrier where they have -- not barrier, but containment for trash bins usually. that is all filling up. and that is a development we just noticed after this latest blast of wind and rain that we got. and that is a big concern out here is the wind and the rain that has picked up. we had been seeing it in bands but those bands are becoming -- are coming through a lot more quickly, a lot more frequently and its hitting us that much more stronger every single time it comes through. and at i...

And storm surge will ride up the coast. if we can get this thing on shore and on land, it will start to weaken and were dealing with a weaker storm. if the storm parallels the coast or stays just off shore, this wind fetch is going to continue and the coastal flooding will be severe all the way up to the tampa, st. petersburg area. >> steve, well continue to talk to you. as steve said earlier in case you werent with us, at the top of every hour were getting updates. hell have that for us at the ...

Fatalities occur after the storm has passed. so we dont want to see anybody get hurt. its safety first for our crews and safety first for our customers. >> well, without a doubt that is an incredibly important piece of information. rob gould, good luck to you. good luck to the 16,000 restoration workers who are going to have a big job ahead of them. we appreciate it. lets go back to msnbcs phillip menia who is in ft. lauderdale. how are things looking since we talked an hour ago? >> reporter: ...

Many areas at or below sea level. so thats why that water just piles on in here throughout the duration of this storm. lets see if we can advance this graphic here and ill show you the wind speeds that are going to be happening here as well, if my computer will. there it goes. this is the eye wall. this is at 5:00 in the morning. the eye wall passes the lower keys as we head through 9:00, 10:00 in the morning. theres that force of wind and water in the keys. still persisting around 9:00 to 10:00...

16,000 restoration workers. its arguably not just the most preset, prestaged before the storm but actually in the u.s. in history. so were ready to get at it. were going to have some challenges today because the weather is going to prevent us from getting out, particularly with the high wind. once the wind subsides in certain areas such as miami-dade, tri-county area, moving up the east coast, well get about restoration. what were saying to our customers, the real challenge on the east coast, we...

In a safe room, interior room or closet in your home with no windows at this point, especially here in the lower keys where youre going to see the eye wall wind. thats almost winds of a tornado coming through but over a very, very large area and for a long period of time. youre going to want tbe in the safest room you can find, lowest floor of a building. the proem is, the storm surge is going to come, too. you have to -- thats why people were told to evacuate to begin with, because the combinat...

Of florida has to prepare for major hurricane landfall potential going through today and tonight into monday. not just from the wind hazard, the storm surge. we were mentioning the 10 to 15 feet of inundation that we were concerned about from cap tetiva naples, life threatening surge here. we could see surge as high as eight feet up into the tampa bay region, big bend, very dangerous day. also, widespread this wind impacts across the entire state of florida. it will see sustained winds. along th...

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