It is moving up the state’s Gulf Coast toward the Tampa Bay area. It is moving up the state’s Gulf Coast toward the Tampa Bay area. When the last big one hit Tampa Bay in the 1920s, hardly anyone lived there. She never intended to evacuate because, according to earlier forecasts, Tampa Bay would be touched by Irma’s outer bands. The Phoenix scenario that modeled a Category 5 strike on Tampa Bay projected that wind damage would destroy nearly half a million homes and businesses.

Source: Washington Post September 11, 2017 00:05 UTC