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these are very different types of storms we re looking at, irma versus harvey. harvey was a major rain event. the concern here especially along lake okeechobee is this is a wind event. this is a surge event. and with winds so powerful, that s what everyone s worried about with respect to those dikes. those are precarious and that s why lake okeechobee, a major concern for everyone in florida. you asked mariana when the airport in miami is going to close. she responded when the sustained winds reach about 35 miles per hour. we re anticipating at this point that s what s going on around the country may happen saturday morning. we re going the watch all of that. there is a lot we know about the storm but there is even more so we still don t. let s go through what we have ....
We re still getting gusts to, to 65 miles an hour. the fact that this storm is moving so slowly would seem number-one concern, as you said, the amount of rainfall, the estimates we are hearing, 10 to 20 inches, what could that potentially mean for the city? one of the real concerns is making sure the pump stations continue to work. and the pump stations have all gotten backup power supplies in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. so that so far seems to be working. what is still being looked at closely in terms of waking up wednesday morning? we re looking at increases in wind speed as the storm continues to move inland and closer to new orleans. at this point it looks like the storm protection system is holding and doing its job? this is a significant surge event we are looking at. 10, 12 feet of surge in some places. but the new levee system is high enough especially on the eastern side of the river, where ....
Of florida except for the western panhandle because of the large size of this system. we have the hurricane is expected to remain a major hurricane when it reaches the southwest coast. it will weaken as it crosses the tampa area. but this will be a major wind and surge event as well as i rainfall the next couple days. the surge event. southwest florida is especially vulnerable from the captiva air includinair area including n. we are expecting storm surge of 10-15 feet and 6-8 feet in the heavily populated tampa area. this remains a dangerous threat for southwest florida later today and spreading up into the ....