of the highest high tides of all of 2023. that s if there wasn t a major hurricane out in the gulf of mexico. so here you go into tomorrow afternoon and to your point, jane, these winds aren t even purely on shore yet. this isn t an orientation that favors yet the worst of the storm surge. jane: you bring up a great point about what is going to happen after the storm leaves the gulf of mexico. i think there is going to be this brief period into the afternoon where the conditions start to subside as this storm lifts into the georgia and the carolinas in the afternoon hours. the second high tide that comes in as idalia pulls away, we ll still have the southwesterly push of the winds on the back side of this storm, and that s going to make the second high tide and the storm surge push last into the day tomorrow, and that, i think, is going to be the one key component in the impacts of this storm that last for 15 hours or more. ian: jane this kind of shows the point i was just making t