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Petersburg: Storms that have destroyed the Caribbean and the key to Florida with rain and strong winds and complicated searches for survivors in a deadly collapse condominium has been strengthened into a storm.
The national weather service said on Tuesday that Hurricane Elsa packed the wind as high as 75 mph (121 kph) when sliding towards the North Teluk Florida coast.
Storm Category 1 is expected to make landing between 8am and 9 on Wednesday, somewhere between Tampa Bay and the Big Bend region.
In addition to damaging the wind and heavy rain, Miami’s national storm center based in Miami warned a surge in storm that threatens the life, flood and isolated tornadoes.
The storm warning has been issued for a long coastline, from the key egmont in the mouth Tampa Bay to the Steinhatchee river in the Big Bend Florida area.
The mainland is expected between the two.
The Tampa area is very vulnerable to the wave of storm because the waters off the coast and Tampa Bay is quite superficial, the experts said.
Governor Ron Desantis said the area would take a hard blow from the storm overnight.
Now “ not the time for the joyride ” because “ we have dangerous conditions out there, “Desantis said at a press conference on Tuesday.
The storm is expected to make landing between 8am and 9 on Wednesday, he said.
However, in the coastal cities of Barrier Island along the Gulf Coast, most businesses are as usual with several windows or plywood boards that rise on Tuesday.
Free sand bags were distributed in several locations, and a number of storm shelter opened Tuesday morning at least four districts around the Tampa Bay area, although there was no evacuation ordered.
Nancy Brindley, 85, who lived in the seafront house built in 1923, said he had experienced 34 tropical cyclones before and did not have window leaves in the window.
The main concern is what will happen to the sand on the adjacent beach and the dunes that protect their homes and others.
He lives through a storm.
`The main concern here is, if it doesn’t speed up and decide to stop, there will be a big erosion,” he said.
Chris Wirtz, 47, and Brendan Peregrine, 44, stayed at the beach inn with their family.
Both of them come from Tampa, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) across the bay and have gone through a storm many times.
“ Before we leave, we know it will come, “said Wirtz.
Others don’t take risks.
Annie Jones, 51, have lived along the Gulf Coast throughout his life.
He bought ice and food at a local grocery store before the storm.
“” I have seen this happen for years and I decided to load, “Jones said.
In all Tampa Bay regions who owned home for around 3.5 million people, events, government offices and schools approached Tuesday early before the storm .
Tampa International Airport Closed at 5 PM Duke Energy, the main electric utility in the Tampa Bay area, said in a statement, it has around 3,000 employees, contractors, tree specialists and supporting personnel who are ready to respond to the power outage in the storm.
Additional crew is being carried from Other countries served by Duke Energy.
“We are trained and prepared, and we want to make sure our customers are safe and ready for the impact of the storm,” said Todd Fountain, Director of Storm Florida Utility.
The fifth game of the Stanley Cup final between Tampa Bay Lightning and Montreal Canadiens, set for Wednesday night, will take place, said Tampa Mayor Jane Castor.
Lightning leads the NHL Championship series 3-1 and can me Win the title with a victory.
The rain tape reached Surfside on the Atlantic Florida coast, soaking the Towers Champlain debris, which collapsed June 24, killing at least 36 people.
Smart search and rescue have worked through rain to search for more than 100 others who are not avoided, even though lightning forces the savior to pause their work for two hours Tuesday morning, officials said.
The point is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Tampa.
It continues to move north at 14 mph (around 23 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center.
Desantis expanded an emergency to cover 33 districts.
After Florida, the fortune teller estimates Elsa will hit the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, which is under the supervision of tropical storms.
The Westward Elsa shift avoided the lower florida key, but the islands still get a lot of rain and wind Tuesday.
Cuban officials evacuated 180,000 people with the possibility of flooding storms that had beaten several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people.
Elsa is the earliest fifth storm named after, said Brian McNoldy, a storm researcher at the University of Miami.