Close to 3 00 a. M. , 4 00 a. M. For lot of spots. We had this big storm tide roll through. And you had some flooding issues. Tidal flooding. Tide going out. So thats better, but i mean we still have fresh water issues that were dealing with. And flood watch continues. Weve had Flood Warnings and i imagine were going to see lot more of those throughout day today. Because this moisture channel, this goes a t way out into the gulf, its not moving much. So it just continues to rain at the heavy rain out of metro area for the time being. I know it had to go somewhere in entrepreneurs now south and east. Duette myakka head. Let me tell you, in arcadia now getting into the act. You get into some heavier thunderstorms, and the winds are gusting 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour. So dont be surprised at some tree limbs are coming down with some of these heftier thunderstorms. Also up into polk county we go 60 from brandon to bartow and over to the lake wales area as well. Sort of coming in behind this. You see were setting another band of moderate rain right back over parts of pasco county. Which they just finished Flood Warning. And now youre getting more rain. So New Port Richey and hudson. And then some moderate rains down here over Pinellas County. Into parts of the south tampa area. Just a lot of rain, weve had rainfall amounts, 22 inches in the past 3 days. 22 inches of rain in the past three days. Late tarpon canal and to go along with heavy rain this morning we still have pretty hefty winds coming in with some showers and storms. Tampa for instance, wind gusts to 32 Miles Per Hour. 33 Miles Per Hour wind gusts clearwater 25 in st. Petersburg. 28 in sarasota. Around 33. Our highway resolution models are showing us that this moisture feed, this channel will continue. At least into part of the afternoon. So while its not raining every second on you iets going rain again for most of us. Thats going to cause more cily. Wrer away chalk full point. We cant put water anywhere else. So were going have to toss it over to vanessa and talk a little bit about whats, whats going roadways right now. All right dave, yeah. Ill take it from here. Well start you off, were going to look at the skyway bridge. There we go. And it is closed still. You can see this closure started yesterday. High winds reported here alternate is going to be i75. Just getting this picture here from pasco county sheriff. This will be fulton. Fulton avenue. Right near little road. We do have a have reports of some storm damage. Weve got trees down. Just a good reminder at this point. Because were dealing with downed lines. Anybody encountering wires down, just treat those as if they were live. Whether you know or not. Just to be safe. Hills hillsborough avenue. Sheldon road. Eastbound flooding from george road to handling road. Were also now getting reports from viewers, between sligh and hillsborough. They say deputies are actually out in that area blocking the road off completely. South tampa, big concern as you boulevard closed between bay to bay. Also flooding reported channelside ashley. Dale mabrey san miguel and manhattan and area of el prado. Out towards beaches gulf boulevard lots of flooding very, very widespread one 80th to johns pass. Specifically one 80 lt to one 70 wee seeing reports of one to two feet of standing water. And then, from south there to johns pass, we have lanes down too. Sebl one lane of traffic there. Bay shore drive also a concern. Want to give you some work arounds on structure fire we will talk about in second. Not letting folks over that ard bridge. Park boulevard bridge. We also have delays reported on gulf. So avoid that era. Bridge alternates here to the north to the south. Tom stuart causeway. All right. Vanessa, thank you. It is 9 05. Developing story out Indian Shores this morningappear small condo complex caught fire. Its the weather though that made it very difficult to fight the fire. Walter a condo complex. Good morning. Russell, laura good morning to you. It is weather that has still allowing this fire to kind of flareup at times. Let me step out of the way. At points during this live shot you might be able to see active flames firefighters continue to pour water on this condo complex. Its not clear whether or not weather is the cause of this fire. Im sure, with storms that came through there was lightning in the area we can definitely tell you its has been able to fan the flames. The wind has been blowing embers when this fire first started if blew embers across the bridge on to the other side. So this is, this is certainly an active scene. Some two ours after the initial call came out. Now were talking with firefighters, they tell us that three of the four units were occupied. Everybody was able to the out safely. However, one person has been transported to the hospital. Believe it or not there was an Indian ShoresPolice Officer. He was one who made initial call. C smoke and flames made initial call. Somehow in between that and he was transported to the hospital with smoke inhalation. He was, he was in the path of this smoke that was coming out of this condo fire. The people who were displaced they are helped out by red cross right now. Now getting back to vanessas traffic report i want Dave Osterberg want to is a gulf boulevard completely blocked. Right around pshg boulevard the bridge, the bridge is also closed. But gulf boulevard is closed as as for cause they are bjork working to determine that, russell, laura. Walter, thank you. Talk to you later, walter. You bet. Glad everybodys okay he did farther south . Sarasota, a sailboat broke free from its mooring. There is right now stranded against the shores. Sarasota Police Department sent these pictures to us. Look at this, downed and obviously live power line. Viewer james sent that in. Look at the fire along the power remember, even if its not on fire or even sparking you should consider that is something. You could consider all downed power lines as still live. And extremely dangerous. Call your Electric Company call teco and duke energy. Whoever it is this by way highway 60 and beverly in brandon. This is also from Crystal River. This is from earlier this morning water almost up to peoples knees. The cars still taking chances water. Alcides has been there since earlier this morning. Josh was there all night long. This is one of the worst hit areas we hear. Yeah. You know, i would agree with that 100 percent. Good news is the water is subsiding. But you can see folks are still out and about trying to assess the damage. You can see that most of those are larger trucks that can get around the Citrus County area. When we got here earlier this morning, it was a lot feet. You can see that truck right there on lefthand side how deep water is earlier this morning a lot. Deep water is now going down. And folks are able to drive around. Again see how bad it is. And ryan was gave us a ride on back of his pick up truck. Thankfully he was able to do that. He had a. High end pick up truck as well. We really got a good idea of how bad the daniel was. In Crystal River. Especially low lying areas. It could be as high as 4 feet deep. Others three feet. And again those residents are waking trying to figure out how bad it is. I will tell speaking with Sheriffs Office earlier this morning the water was as high as six poit 7 feet. Storm surge and high tide from that river causing all of the problem. And twin river marina in crysta morning. The department actually had to relocate some of their fire trucks because of the flood. But, i mean, looking at the damage, i tell you, laura and russell, its pretty significant. 18 families were evacuated earlier this morning. They are waking up in storm shelters getting help not only from red cross but eoc as well. Here you go, this is, this is was were talking about. Actually this is i thought he had a rope he was towing. Thats not case at all these here because again, the water subsided earlier this morning it was very deep. And a lot of cars and that auto sales shop all way in the back were about easy toel headlights. Bad news they got lot of cleaning up to do. Lot of cleaning up. Debris a lot of cleaning up to do Sheriffs Office just one the deputies take off because theres power line down. They are trying to figure out if is hot o so again, if youre living in Crystal River area Citrus County area, homosassa, im on social media, facebook. Homosassa was hit hard as well. Youre out and waking up this morning looking outside, and you had damage, please be very careful. There are some power lines that are still down. Back to you. Was that pick up truck you were in earlier high up . Was it regular pick up . Yes or higher up than usual . Was higher up. It wans as high as this f 250 here coming now. But it was pretty close. You can see this, this 250 is taking it with ease. High enough that we felt comfortable, yeah 250. We felt comfortable that enough, he had been going up and down the street as well. So i knew he has been living in Citrus County, Crystal River for nine years he knew area very well and had high and trucks. Just checking. All right. All right. See you. All right. We have still lots more ahead. Were back with dave and jim coming up right a. This. Lets give you another live at the radar right now. We have, guys, we have to figure out when this is going to end. You going to tell us when this is going to end . Ill give you my best estimate. Im were ready for this to be done. Were kind of ready. Okay Mother NatureMother Nature russell is ready for this to be dave new pictures this hour of storm damage in pasco county. The sheriffs off wow oh wow new pictures this hour of storm damage pasco county. As Sheriffs Office just tweeted these out. You can see part of an old semiwhich is turned over on an damage. This is just a small amount of the damage that were seeing across our area this morning. Its, its not just along the coast. But its inland as well. Were still not done with this. I mean part big bend area were about done with this we just have this moisture channel. Rain is just feeding in coming in off the gulf. And jims joining me now so we can talk about this you know, just unbelievable amount of rain. It just comes in waves. Sue get little brief breaks. Breaks just arent coming along enough to really be able to recover from anything. Its been slowly shifting further to the south. Which i guess is good news. Because at least were shifting into areas that havent seen as much of the rain. But now youre seeing flooding as well. O manatee and sarasota you know look now the storm but this band of rain is just straight across our state. And its just lined up perfectly to bring us the heavy rain. And its over and over and over the same spots. And spots that were dry, literally an hour or two ago or now wet again. Were talking about brooksville. Down through parts of pasco county. We just got done with Flood Warning here come more thunderstorm activity. What catches your eye what jim was talking about all this activity is working south and east. To wauchula getting heavy stuff. Yeah. These are the areas, you know, not that weve been ignoring you throughout hardee, de soto and highlands county. You just havent seen much throughout this entire event. Now youre starting to see some heavy rain coming in. And its really holding together. This is a very intense band. So down into these areas up southern polk county. Down towards wauchula youre seeing it come through now. Youre going to see some winds gusting inside these stronger so get set for that also a little bit of lightning in there as well. Seeing some breaks along the coastline. Still, dealing with some rain from central, southern Pinellas County across the Sunshine Skyway bridge. Still remains closed at this point. And more rain started to redevelop. Look at that to the north. And people have been tweeting us in pictures. Please, but we, absolutely greatly appreciate them. But we want you to do it safely. And when we get to those pict then ill go back to the wind gusts. Some of this stuff, jim. Down in sarasota, and starting about hour, maybe 90 minutes ago. More of these very strong squalls moving through this. So there you see sarasota pd tweeted this picture of officer miller. Calling marine patrol were starting to see lot of boats break loose from moorings. Another good reason, not to drive during this. Were sent this picture here. Tree while he was driving. So can you imagine how bad that could have been. And down into manatee county. I, nicole ridge well took this picture. Folks, can i tell you, what you should definitely not be doing . Russell, laura, look at this. Oh. Ridiculous. Please dont drive into water of that depth. Even if youve driven that road a million times, how do you know the roads not washed out underneath . How do you know your cars not drifting away. Is that stalled . By way water is moving they probably at least made it through. Even if you made it through you have no idea what kind of damage youve potentially just caused your car. It might be two days from now, and suddenly you find out your transmission is trashed. Forget a tradein too. How about this, pasco sheriff power pole half down. And again, power line to coming down want people to stay away completely stay away. You saw this one earlier dave can you imagine. If this tree wept the other way. Uhhuh. Boy. Let me tell you that house is lucky. Maybe i dont know i cant see whole house that tree coming down over water obviously jim, a lot better than situation before. Obviously going to be an entire weekend full o labor day weekend, were heading into. Things will start to improve later on this afternoon. But obviously, were all left with a lot of clean up across the area. Yeah. I want to show this. Again heres, heres what youre center of hermine is Tropical Storm down graded from hurricane earlier. And just the moisture that is just been driving in from the gulf. Like a hose. Its just, not turning off the tap yet. And i think that this is something that we will be and then eventually later today well turn everything off. This will weaken. And then we can kind of start drying things out a little bit. But at least in the shortterm, in the next few hours, were still right in thick of this. I just amazed at this rainfall total coming from lake tarpon canal. 22. 36 inches. That was as of couple hours ago they probably added more to that since wednesday. I dont know where that is. Ive never heard. Like, lake tarpon. What part of it . I dont know. Largo. 15. 27 inches of rain. Some of these numbers are obviously going to be updated as we move along. These are from a couple of hours ago. Some of the peak w gusts that weve had, 71 in treasure island. Macdill 55. Crystal river 53. Tampa international with a wind gust of 46. Now, a lot of fresh water flooding going on. But, i also want you to throw in the back of your mind that were afternoon on anotherhtide. Now. It not be as hig earlier this morning. So thats good news. But were still maybe dealing ng. Crystal 5 49. 3 21. 1 50 for tarpon springs. You can pick the tide closest to you. But again, basically what happened is its like a big washing machine in the gulf. Everything just kind of going like this. Until storm moves far away it calls. You got picture of where it is . Of the lake tarpon canal. Its coming. Heres the map. There it is. You asked and you shall receive. This is west of oldsmar as youre going into Pinellas County. And that Little Bridge there, thats lake tarpon canal. I know. Tampa road. That general location. Curlew. Thats not way up there then. No its not. Closer i thought was going to be on other side tarpon springs. It connects lake tarpon with bay. And 22 inches of rain since all of this started in that one area. I can imagine just how much that swelling that whole river area as well. After today, things will start toimprove. We today. Were going to hav more flooding today. For only second time this morning since 3 30 i will show you sevenday forecast, okay. By the weekend. By labor day. You take look and rain chances will get back to 30 percent back to kind of drier conditions. But really for today, i just need everybody to please be safe out there if you have to go out on roads. Vanessa. Absolutely a lot of flooding were dealing with. Debris in roadway. Downed power lines. And reports of traffic signal and so, yeah were going to try to touch on as many as we can. I want to focus on Northern Counties as well i promise i havent ignoring you in Hernando County hadnt gotten any official reports yet from the Sheriffs Office until very recently. But i will let you know this is what they are reporting. All main roadways in Hernando County passable at this time. And any concerns you have are going to be on coastal area side roads for instance they are just now posting this picture. Pine island drive spring we can see at least this area will be closed under water, got barricades up. Were also seeing a lot storm damage particularly in that area. Pasco county drivers, we have a long list of closures that we received from the Sheriffs Office. By the way are on my Facebook Page if you want to look full list just picking out few areas. Hudson essentially hudson avenue west of u. S. 19 we see lot of delay there is flooding reported. Road closed in some portions of it. Green key road as we head to new 19. And then well get to Citrus County. We have flooding reported since early this morning. With road closures. U. S. 19, cardinal street homosassa. All way to state road 448 Crystal River and still have word of closure here u. S. 19 fort island trail to Crystal River m