AccuWeather Correspondent Leslie Hudson reports on storm surge flooding already spilling into the streets of Treasure Island, Florida. Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall tonight.
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00:00So we're in Treasure Island, which is still Hillsborough County, and the storm surge has already started to come in. You can see here
00:06It's not too bad. This is you know, maybe six eight inches of standing water of just the very beginnings
00:11Of course, I'm gonna I would take you here and just show you some things you can see the road
00:15I completely impassable in this area that looks like a local maybe maybe he's leaving for the day. I'm not sure
00:21But definitely there is a residents that do not leave this area
00:25We were talking to several people earlier today and a lot of people do right out the storm. We are right on the water
00:31I just passed where that that that woman is is getting into her car
00:37There is the Tampa Bay the Bay there
00:40So we are in an area that is expected to get a five to eight foot storm surge on later today
00:46So the beginnings now the low tide was around 1230 today
00:51So we're expecting though, of course the water to continue to rise throughout the day the height of the stir of the high tide here
00:57We'll be 11 o'clock tonight. So that's when they are most concerned with the rise of the waters
01:02But we talked to some folks here that have weathered a couple of hurricanes and they did decide to stay
01:07Here's what one of them had to say
01:10The second time we stayed in a storm and it like is it always generally floods out here and we live on stilts
01:15And so we flood downstairs, but we know that living on the beach. That's gonna be the way it is
01:20We're a little concerned about later. So we're trying to decide whether we're leaving or not leaving
01:29So a lot of people again trying to make that judgment call a lot of folks have told me that it is common to lose
01:35Power here. Of course, I know Wi-Fi
01:37So the comforts that most people are enjoy when you're in a hurricane will not be the case here in a few hours