Charlie Crist: ‘The Conditions Are Not That Bad’ Right Now in St. Pete But ‘There’s More To Come’

‘A storm surge like that is what you really worry about’

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BERMAN: "--to St. Petersburg, Florida. Governor Charlie criss joins me now. You’ve been in the state of Florida for a long, long time and now as a governor. This storm is unlike any we’ve ever seen. What are you seeing right now?"
CRIST: "Thanks for your excellent coverage. I’m in downtown St. Petersburg, and what we’re seeing is decent wind. It’s not terrible. Probably around 20 miles an hour. We do have rain, and the conditions are not that bad, but we know there’s more to come because we’ve seen what you’ve been broadcasting throughout the morning."
BERMAN: "What we’re getting here in Miami, you’re going to get and potentially much worse in the coming hours. "Congressman, I don’t know if you can see behind me, but the docks that were behind me are filling with water. We’re getting a storm surge at about 6 feet max. We’re supposed to get 10 to 15 feet. How do you think the Tampa bay area will handle that?
CRIST: "The best we can, obviously. A storm surge like that is what you really worry about. Depending on where the storm continues to track will be a huge factor in how much of a surge we experience, whether we get it on the front side of the storm before the eye comes toward us or on the back side of the storm after it’s passed by. That all depends, as you know, whether the eye goes to the east of us or to the west of us. We just don’t know that for sure yet, so only time will tell."

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