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Several hurricanes, matthew laster, did not come close. take a look right here this is what -- this car may have stopped, that's a good idea. you can see how much water is in this intersection. this is margaret and riverside avenue. to the left a little bit, you can see a lot of water over there in the st. john's rushing through, and up through margaret. and then if we pan to the right, we will look down to the right area, you will see a publics in the distance, and really a river at this point. only down to st. vincent going down there, dez with flooding issue. there is a lot of water here. w...

Last several hours, certainly during irma itself, was the fact that the river was so low. now we've seen so much of the water pour back in, almost to normal levels. people we talked to today would say this would normal look like. the issue with the big concern, any type of storm surge coming back into this area. when you look at st. pete or tampa and you think about -- it's a mini microcosm of almost what the peninsula of florida itself is like in terms of coastal communities, but when you think clearwater and st. pete and wrapping around through south tampa and into tampa itself, it's all thi...

Roofs. you know, the other problem, of course, is the flooding not from that storm surge which is going to be the big legacy along that coastline once we're able to get out of this storm and see it, but the wind damage, the first part of the one-two punch that was dealt here. the wind damage has been catastrophic. it's just smashed everything in this area that we see and, oven, the flooding in -- of course, the flooding and the lakes rising, we have at least i would say a foot in the lake around us from rainfall. and having spent all that time just a week or so ago in houston in hurricane harv...

Impact of that storm if that eye continue to wobble in that direction. if there's anything we can hope for here, and truly, there's not a lot of hope for the west coast of florida to avoid the storm, but if there's anything and people to belief in the power of positive thinking, getting that storm to wobble a little bit into the everglades would be the best thing for the operation north of th population north of the storm. >> there's the physical absorbing because there are trees and because there's brush, and you'll see on east coast they've stopped letting people take away the most basic bru...

The anticipation for this storm, hurricane harvey, experts predict this may be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before. john? >> all right. nick val entity for us in corp. russ christie. get out and listen to emergency officials. now in san antonio where some people are heading. the even though san antonio is is inland will not be spared. >> reporter: right. many of those evac eukeys are making their way like austin or here in san antonio, the threat is far from over. once they arrive here the flooding issue will continue to persist. as we heard, this storm is essentially going to...