winter storm<\/a> that is sweeping across the United States, we caught up with experts about how that storm could impact the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\nJason Skorczewski of Revenova, a transportation management system company, says depending on how hard some areas are hit, our community could potentially feel the effects.<\/p>\n
Skorczewski says trucks and trains can move everything from food to fuel, so if transportation breaks down, areas outside of the winter storm will also be impacted.<\/p>\n
“Fortunately, the industry’s pretty resilient,” Skorczewski. “We deal with these types of events several times a year. So, typically it’s not weeks, it’s days to a week in most cases. It just depends on the severity of the storm for how long it’ll take to get back to normal.”<\/p>\n
Ice from the weather system has already caused roads to shut down in several states impacted by the storm.<\/p>\n
The storm has also impacted families who may have been looking to make a move into, or out of, the Sunshine State over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The owner of 2 College Brothers Moving and Storage, Wade Swikle, says that coordinating around rocky weather is all about communicating with clients and keeping safety first.<\/p>\n
“We’re definitely taking some precautions on our side to make sure that our drivers are safe, and communicating with clients to make sure that they know what’s ahead, because not everybody checks the forecast,” Swikle said. “Rather be safe than sorry at the end of the day, because the most important thing is not necessarily that you get your stuff up there on the exact perfect day that you want, but that your stuff and your family are there safely at the other end.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ice from the weather system has caused roads to shut down in several states impacted by the storm.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-131802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}