Tampa bay has been completely sucked out? WTH???

Storm surge is the biggest problem.

When Ike hit, Galveston was under 6 feet of water for WEEKS.

Million times more damaging than winds.

The average glp’er can’t understand a simple concept like this but thanks for trying.

He is correct. The up draft responsible for the eye of the hurricane creates a intense low pressure zone. Think of it as a straw that sucks up a column of water 10 miles across and about 10 feet higher than the rest of the ocean. The bay was close enough it was pulled into that huge bubble of water.

What goes up, must come down.

Looks just like Irma.

Tampa bay got sucked out when Charlie came through. that probably is old vid from then ...look it up.

BINGO! The water is being sucked OUT not UP. 20 foot wall of water incoming on the right side of storm and it's not a gradual rise, it's nearly instant.

Tampa Bay is on the eastern (gulf) side of the peninsula, and hurricanes rotate CCW.

Maybe wind pushing the water out to sea??

At any rate, yes, it will come back with a vengeance

Low tide, smells like Kamala.

one thing they do not clarify a ten foot surge start at sea level if you live at 11 feet above sealevel ok it is not gonna clinb extra foot but take patgh least resistance lotta what they do panic mode

Im in agreement with you about that it makes sense. Its not a deep water hurricane like in the pacific. Im a gulf coast ol salty dog, and ive got a feeling about this storm.

Normal for the wind direction. Last time I drove over the causeway in these conditions with a grocery delivery, people were out there with four wheelers riding on the muck.

this happened a few years back

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Yes, as the center goes south of Tampa the winds will be out of the east. Then shift more to the north. I don't feel there will be a big surge in Tampa Bay.

This east wind will blow the water out of the bay.

The storm surge will be on the south side of the storm. North of Fort Myers.

No it doesnt

I was living in Houston too during Alicia. I remember it well as a kid. The force of the winds blowing the trees almost sideways. Watching it from the windows. It was incredible. Then when the eye passed over our parents let us go out and play for a bit. The sky was green. It left so much destruction everywhere, but our house stayed in tact.

Relax. Also happened with Irma.

Irma? did the same thing

I’d stop shooting videos and GTFO. but that’s just me.

Tidal bore

100% the correct course of action.

It not common cause you don't know the pilot needs to be lit if he not home then water isn't coming back either

The tank empty and batch didn't pay the water bill

If gone to far then fine if I can't take an hot shower neither can you

What up Homey!? Yes it rolled through in the middle of the night. Stepped out on the porch for about 15 minutes during the eye of the storm. Snapped big oak trees everywhere, even ripped monster oaks right out from the ground. Blue flashes from downed power lines everywhere you looked. 15' tide surge too. I was living off gessner and westiemer area.

I got hired on with moterel roofing and sheetmetal on galveston island and lived there for three years after the storm until the major repair work started drying up. Thanks for the shout out!
And to all of those in Ians path God's speed!

Where is the “Biden did. that” Meme ?

That's crazy I was raised in TB I know that spot.....wow

It’s called a reverse surge. The hurricane pulls the water out as it churns toward land. The water returns with the hurricane as it makes land fall and accounts for the inward surge. It’s part of what makes hurricanes so dangerous. A Bay is much more susceptible to the reverse surge than a normal coast line and why the surge will be much worse with some estimates of 8 to 10 feet. When the hurricane makes land fall it pulls all that water back to the Bay plus a whole lot more ocean with it and it has to go somewhere and is being directed by the force of the hurricane across its path on land creating dangerous flooding.