NPR News: 10-08-2024 3AM EDT

44.372 - 64.778 Greg Allen

A lot of the focus is on Tampa Bay, but, you know, the worst winds in the storm surge will come south of the eye, wherever that happens to be. But in Tampa Bay, because of its topography, it's extremely susceptible to storm surge. Helene, you know, made landfall more than 150 miles north of there. But even so, the eight-foot storm surge in Tampa Bay was the worst seen in at least a century.