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After the storm passes to get their power fixed. here in the community, people here lost power at at 6:30 p.m. i lived in fort myers for six years leading up to this end as he mentioned a lot of people will come to orlando. i ve done it before, my brother from miami came up and stayed with my uncle here in orlando. something a lot of people do to escape the storm surge that we saw that devastated southwest florida. what you don t escape as the flash flooding. you mention the 30 inches of rain and that s going to be a big thing tomorrow. gorge county sheriff s office putting on the message tonight saying the flooding could be catastrophic. they are telling people stay inside and do not drive through flooded streets. it s difficult to tell how deep the water is. after seeing the images, trays, living in fort myers, my heart goes out to the people who are dealing with horrific conditions ....
We have a unified command with a variety of municipal police department s and the sheriff s office. we ve got a thousand members in our agency to make sure our citizens and community is safe from weather events and from criminals that would prey on them. we are aware of that and we have discussed that as a staff level. we haven t seen it yet and i can tell you in the center behind me, the dedicated men and women got 90 calls i believe in backlog right now. we are going through those everything from alarms to medical calls and two road blocks, that sort of things. it were trying to make our way through the backlog calls as we start to come out of the ability of going out and being in the community and seeing what s going on. in the key munication center we are here taking those calls. the next hour or two, will have a better assessment and the preliminary reports i mentioned, trees, power, wa water. ....
We are a barrier island community so we shut those water off and we message staff. we break in the system out there on the barrier islands in the county and would not be affected. it s a fragile ecosystem along the coast and the barrier islands. no sewer and water lines are vulnerable and when we have a break and that means we don t have the pressure of the ability to have water for the main. our initial indications are that we have a break somewhere in the line or pressure is down. thankfully because we shut it down to the barrier islands, will be able to find it and patch it and restore for all of sarasota county. it s the reason why we do that. if we mentioned that while before i head of time and we messaged it to our community. best of luck to you and the people down there. we know you got your hands all of the myriad of problems. let us know if you have any messages you need to send and we will put you back on the air and ....
good evening, we are getting a few cars out to check some of those areas initially. going through the neighborhoods but we are hearing from our 911 center here and where we at right now, a lot of folks in need. this is obviously a high wind storm and a high water storm. we are a coastal county and we have a lot of folks particularly innate in the south end of the county that have some significant damage. we ll be doing early assessments as the sun comes out. trace: when you talk early assessments and i m wondering if the deputies have been out at all to kind of assess the damage that is even close by the various stations around sarasota county. i wonder if you have seen anything and is there any way to expedite some of these rescue efforts that might be under way the next four hours? obviously, the first thing is that the wind has to die down enough for emergency services to ....
Saying the areas now facing sustained winds of about 105 miles per hour. category two no in the orlando area in the water is a huge concern they are. they are expecting not inches, they are expecting possibly feet of rain. she southwest of orlando and the wind area and got the latest from there. those lakes are concerning what s happening where you are? i can tell you, the wind in the rain is certainly slapping us in the face right now increasing in intensity. it s been constant all day. as we get a gust right now, i ve got to keep an eye behind me because we re probably not set up in the best spot right now. the intensity increases pretty rapidly. i can tell you in orange county where we are with 40,000 people that have lost power, the top of the show over 2 million now in florida. we are at the point where people are going to have to wait until ....