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Thank you for that. marisa, give us a sense of what you re seeing on the ground in terms of preparations and evacuations. that area may not be in zone a but nonetheless, it s very low lying. exactly. hi from tampa. yes. let me set the scene here. i ve been here for about 24 hours. and it s interesting to compare the differences between the feeling in the air between yesterday and today. yesterday, there was a lot more seemed like a frantic rush from people trying to get those last minute prep. lowe s said they saw a lot of traffic. we were out where people get sandbags. when i was talking to people picking up sandbags just at one location, they gave away 10,000 just in one day. it was 50/50 in terms of the concern people had. there were some people telling me they don t normally take tropical storms, cat 1s, 2, 3, they don t take them that seriously normally but they said because of what happened with ....
Be worse. the arrival coincides with a king tide that brings some of the highest ocean water levels of the year. officials at tampa general hospital have constructed an aqua fence in an attempt to protect against what may come there. joining me now from crystal river, florida, guad and from tampa, nbc news correspondent, marisa. she ll be joining me by phone. guad, what s happening where you are? how are preparations going? reporter: alex, this is one of the evacuation zones. . zone a. florida has an evacuation zone that s been set. more than 20 counties have evacuation orders in place. we ve been getting messages on our phones, a message says here, life threatening storm surge expected. evacuate citrus county zone a now. take action. so we ve been talking about the storm surge. just mentioned the king tide. ....