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Tide gauge in upper Tampa Bay still tanking.

Current negative tide in St Pete. Tide is "incoming" until 3.

Coffeepot bayou in St Pete.

My Uncle lives in port Charlotte on the water. He has been in the eye of hurricane Camille (pass Christian, Ms), eye of Charley, and now Ian. He stayed.

We have had a VERY rainy summer in St. Pete. Where I live I can probably count the days that it hasn't rained in the last 30 or 40 days on one hand. It more or less has rained every day.

If we got that kind of rain on top of 4' of water, then Shore Acres would be screwed. They would definitely have water in houses. My kids go to school over there and I have to drive through saltwater on any high tide this time of year.

Hi SnowGoose. I live in NE St. Pete. 5 blocks from the bay. I wouldn't be too worried about that. A 3-4 surge here wouldn't be a huge deal as we've experienced that a number of times over the years. The normal flooding places like Shore Acres would have problems and some homes would be damaged but not too much and not something we haven't already seen before. Overall that would be a huge win for our area compared to any landfall to our north.

Unreal how quickly the inner core dissolved on radar. I'm in St. Petersburg and we're in what should be a very strong inner band and it's a total non event outside right now. Little rain and a little wind, but nothing to write home about.

I'm in St. Petersburg. Looking like that jog should put the heaviest most inner band just to the west of us.

We are having terrible red tide in Tampa Bay. It's really widespread....I've seen tons of dead fish at downtown St. Pete, Indian Rocks Beach, Tierra Verde and in the upper bay near Tampa. If we get a storm surge here it could flush the bay and in theory this may help with the red tide.

Driving from Boston to Stowe tomorrow. Wondering if there are some spectacular peak areas I should hit on the way. I'm reading that the NEK is past peak. Is the kanc past peak too?