apathy and play games with. this is a storm that we want all of our residents to not be on the road, lock down, be ready and let's ride out this storm. >> reporter: be ready, your plans needed to be made already. stay safe over the next few days. mayor, thank you very much for being with us. you please stay safe as well. thank you, sir. >> thank you very much, john. >> reporter: all right, we're getting periodic communication with patrick ottman who was in freeport on grand ba hahama. patrick, what are you seeing? >> just the wind coming in sideways, it really is incredible. it's incredible because we are on our i don't know what, 12, 14, i've lost track, the storm came in last night in the middle of the night and it sounds like a plane taking off. here we are all these hours later and you're watching the rain go sideways like this.