You probably need to write your name in permanent marker on your arm so that people know who you are when they get to you afterwards."
Tampa General health care providers and staff who are trained in emergency management will remain on-site throughout the storm to care for patients. As soon as the storm passes, and the roads are safe, additional providers and staff will return to work to relieve teams and continue supporting response and recovery efforts."
We have a proactive and comprehensive plan in place to protect our locations against severe weather so we can continue to provide the exceptional care for which our patients turn to Tampa General."
You can get them on a thunderstorm cell up to 200 miles from the centre of the hurricane."
We could have tornadoes within a hurricane as it crosses land, you could have super tornadoes and the hurricane at the same time. In exactly the same way as hurricanes, there's a league table."
If you've got a category 5 super tornado, you have gusts of over 200mph. I think what will happen is there'll either be zero or a few scattered around."
If it goes in at a category four, trees will be snapped, power cables down and houses destroyed, it's like a full-on train hitting you."
Even a category three is considered to be major. Those are the statuses in terms of the wind. The big thing is the western side of Florida you're going to expect a tidal surge with waves estimated to be 10-15 feet high. If you're stood on the beach two or three times above your head, you won't survive."
This could be the worst storm to hit Florida in over a century.”
Today’s the last day to get ready,
All this debris is like missiles,
If you choose to stay … you are going to die,
Unfortunately every storm we see traffic fatalities because people wait until the last minute to leave,
The wrinkle effect is more subtle, but still significant. It indicates that wrinkle patterns are at least partially use-dependent,
Helene was a wake-up call, this is literally catastrophic,
These extremely warm sea surface temperatures provide the fuel necessary for the rapid intensification that we saw taking place to occur,
Now that it's my turf, it's different. When I storm chase in Louisiana, there's a one-way road, and it’s in and out. I don't know where the heck I'm going. This is my turf. So, I've lived for this moment,
To me, it’s sad. You get kind of numb to the idea of living here that it can't happen. And Helene was a rude wake-up call. Maybe that really got people fired up in a weird way."
I sense a little panic, a race. Because the storms will be here tomorrow night. A lot of a lot of plywood and trucks. A lot of people [are] still evacuating, boarding up, [a] familiar sight living in Florida,
I’ve got a debris pile behind me just littered with debris for miles and miles and miles. And it's the same scene up and down to all of the Tampa Bay region. This is one story of many, of course, that's unfolding. And it's just it's sad for these folks, they lost everything. Now dealing with possibly a higher storm surge,