we -- where sheets of rain, waves of rain are coming and the worst still hour ahead for the people of tampa. i want to the go to brian todd on the eastern side of florida. brian, the images there, i mean, you are still getting hammered there. >> reporter: we really are, anderson. this has been going on for close to eight hours. people thought they might be late in the process by now, but it has been very intense for about eight hours now and it doesn't look like it's letting up any time soon. just about anything you can see -- whoa, i just -- i just have to tell you we saw a huge blue light over the distance. it looked like an explosion. we saw a similar event just down the street here and it was a transformer explosion and i just saw one very intense over to my left. so it looks like -- yeah. it really is. it was a large one. it was behind a building, but i