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Final hours of hurricane preparations. tampa bay police, making last-ditch efforts to warn residents and flood risk zones to leave. now it s a enforcement to let them know that you are in an area where you need to evacuate. this is not a drill. this is not the time to stay! serious warnings of residents, here this vulnerable area, expected to be in the crosshairs of hurricane and as it barrels to the west coast of florida. we have over 120 miles of coastline just in this city of tampa. at least 2.5 million floridians under various evacuation orders. it s a storm that is predicted to cause water damage like none before. when you talk about ten or 15 inches of rain, on top of this surge, it s unprecedented. no infrastructure is built for that. with this hurricane, a direct hit is unnecessarily the cause of severe flooding. the slow moving storm is just all just the coast of tampa bay, starting wednesday evening. it s gonna be in our, rivers ....
Report. good, hey, we re coming by and letting everyone know we re in a mandatory evacuation situation. the tampa bay area, in its final hours of hurricane preparations. tampa bay police making last-ditch efforts to warn residents to leave flood zones. now we re reinforcing the idea that you re in an area that you need to evacuate. this is not a drill. this is not the time to stay. serious warnings to residents here. this vulnerable area expected be the crosshairs of hurricane ian as it barrels towards the west coast of florida. we have over 120 miles of coastline just in the city of tampa. at least 2.5 million floridians under various evacuation orders. it s a storm that s predicted to cause water damage like none before it. we re talk about ten or 15 inches of rain on top of the surge. that is unprecedented. no infrastructure is built for that. with this hurricane, a ....
Per hour in its forward progression. this could be a multi-day event from wednesday night to friday morning where the system finally moves out of this region before it s all said and done. it looks like a lot of trouble on the way for folks around tampa. thank you, pedram. people on florida s west coast have just hours to prepare before the first wave of wind and wave arrives. more from cnn s ryan young. he s in tampa. this could be the storm that we ve hoped would never come to our shores. reporter: up and down the west coast of florida tonight, hurricane preparations underway. it s been a century since the tampa area of south florida has been directly hit by a hurricane and now hurricane ian could change history. everyone and i mean everyone in pinellas county will witness some degree of impact from the storm. reporter: nearly 170,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. ....
The University of South Florida is partnering with Hillsborough County and the Florida Department of Health to help with community emergency preparations ahead of Hurricane Ian. ....
The path is uncertain, but customers are buying storm supplies. Customers headed to Lowe's Home Improvement on U.S. Highway 19 in Clearwater on Friday. ....