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Charleston floods if you get 4 inches of rain fall. elevation is zero. but the high and low tide mean everything. at 11:41, its high tide. if this land fall is at noon, that means that surge will be four to 7 feet in. if its at low tide, then maybe just maybe well only get a couple of feet. look at the inundation map in charleston where you can see how much all the rivers, anybody who lives along these water ways is looking at three to 6 feet. again, don, you know historic charleston, they are g...

Level that even if we have a surge, we are safe. and its exactly what we did. anyone can go on the west side and check their elevation levels. and the news tells you that your home is going to be on elevation with a surge that you need to evacuate, then you need to do that. so, thats exactly what we did. we checked our level, and our home was safe. and thats why we stayed. so, for everybody in zone a, i believe that most people in sanibel got evacuate. and people in zone b also got evacuated. an...

Took it really, really bad. fort myers beach took it really, really bad. thankfully it was just buildings. like i said, well build it back. >> you know, im looking at this and thinking about it as a mother myself, and i cannot imagine having to do this and try to go through it. you have four children. you have your dog as well. some of them are very young. when was it like being there with your children. you must have had your own fears, your own concerns. but, you know, us mothers, we have to m...

If you have seen the damage in naples, that was significant. so to the right of the center, so if we take the center on shore here to the right of that up around georgetown, heading to myrtle beach, this is where the highest storm surge will be. and high tide, this is important, high tide is going to be this morning about two hours from now. so if we can get this thing to come on shore later this afternoon, that would be closer to low tide and minimize the amount of damage at landfall. thats the...

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Media. we had that in the very beginning and so, it did allow us to coordinate things before the wrath of the storm really hit and get some extra people out especially as the storm started to take a turn but then you know, basically we still have text messaging. im obviously talking to you on my phone so we continue to communicate but the beauty was we did get a lot of folks out of here but getting them out of here didnt stop the wind, and especially the water. so although we had strong gusts he...

Being trapped by water in their homes. what still latest you can tell us about people are stranded calling for help in your county? >> i think what happened is that people saw that the winds werent going to be any horrific, people have lived through other her game, so when it looked like it was gonna be north of us -- but the folks that underestimated the storm surge, i mean, here on marco island, even homes that are at such an elevation that wouldnt normally see flooding saw it. and if you wait...

Florida. specifically with the water. the wind will be its own element, but where we are located in florida, we are prone to storm surge and that will be the rising level of water that the storm will push into the region. we are very low elevation wise in florida, we have a lot of homes on the coastlines and we are concerned about up to ten feet of water moving into some of our region and causing devastation along the coastlines, on top of the wind speed. along the coastlines, on top of the wind...

You have to know that. you dont want to go to the basement if youre in a low elevation. interior room, you want to be pillows, blankets, a mattress. you go into the bathroom and put a mattress on top of you and you wait and pray and hope for it to pass. thats the situation that many people are going through in this area right now. the wind gusts, theyre going to pick up. a lot of our wind centers are going to break. theyre going to stop working. weve had numerous gusts to 60 to 70 and were not g...

You know, the linemen ready to come in, begin restoring power, theyre already parkway positioned. theyve got to wait for conditions to be safe. we emphasized bulk removal of debris. in the roads are clear, you cant even start the work. the cooperation has been excellent. better than its ever been before a storm. >> senator, im wondering about the islands in southwest florida that really have taken a direct hit, moving south of sarasota, even boca grande, sanibel island. sanibel islands elevation...