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But is your message to them most importantly you need to wait for the storm to pass to really handle that situation? >> absolutely. if you cant get the utility trucks out of the wind and weather, i know the utilities are working hard. im doing a daily call with all the utilities and since the storm hits will do twice a day calls so weak it as many assets in here as fast as possible. i know the power is important to people. i know fuel is important. weve worked with the oil companies, gas distrib...

The water before it comes back in. >> other low spot on my patio. i take a broom and sweep it off. that is what happens in these hurricanes. the wind takes all the water and piles it up against the shoreline. >> thats exactly what it is. the worst of the storm surges are a parent vi. it is from wind pushing the water in piling it up. as you end up in some cases a 30-foot storm surge. but also by the way depends on the ocean floor and exactly how that piles up. thats exactly what this is. train t...

Are so far away from key west and yet feelings so much of the storm and that is what will happen as it continues to move out. guys, you can show the rest of this downtown miami. biscayne boulevard with the flooding we talked about before actually moving a little further out. more flooding over here and starting to see more water pulled in by biscayne bay pulled in because its been really coming from the bay. miami downtown surrounded. the water spraying in more than when we first got here. piece...

Tampa. like in a microsecond, they said its going to port charlotte incoming data across your county. we saw her with it damage on the east side of the county and we were prepping on the left side. you can never, ever say you are safe until the storm is all the weight on. trailing train for this will start a key west, mark all the way up to state that the buzz saw, every one of florida touched by this. >> they absolutely are. the storm surge very important to remember because water kills. one of...

Direct it will be catastrophic. catastrophic on three levels. the wind, storm surge and flooding. the governor was talking to you guys if you days ago. upwards of 10 to 15 inches. vo should get a new lover behind me. five feet 10. 15 feet away over twice my head going into all the buildings in 2005, hurricane wilma backe are flooded back in. as we saw in hurricane harvey in houston, the most dangerous part of flooding is getting in your car. you get quickly to floodwaters. you are trapped in goi...

Here. we will obviously be moving well before that happens. earlier this morning, the communications director for collier county top about the real threat, which is the storm surge in addition to the winds. take a listen. >> we have gone through and made sure all of our storms range and everything we can to get the water to come in as best we can. >> they just had about two weeks ago some flooding for rain here. is a day of hot a lot of rainfall, expect and 14, 15 according to meteorologist on t...

Eastern side of southern florida. im in miami beach right now and we are about a block away from the water in a safe elevated position. we are expecting storm surges here of 3 to 5 feet. when we talk about the threats to this immediate location, it is quite unbelievable to imagine what is going on here. this is as real as it gets. tornadoes, flash flooding, mandatory evacuations and mandatory curfew as well. the mpolice have warned us that anyone on the streets is susceptible to getting arrested...

North has time to prepare and get out before the tropical storm winds earlier today. trade for national hurricane weather center. busy day. thank you. we will bring in phil keating in miami beach is the winds pick up they are. still. reporter: john, these are really moving if you are standing around and you shouldnt even be outside today at all. its very dangerous. the wind is very strong. by jimmy dade county bordering on the 60s and 70s. so far reported in the storm in miami-dade county 70 mil...

West to be on the west side of this. the winds coming from the north and the other side. there is a ton of wave energy being spread up towards the miami area. a lot of the energy will pull up over the next couple of hours. tons to go right here. this is a capital for -- cat four. this is going to be a really big deal hitting florida in a storm that has been strong for a long time that is accumulated a lot of energy in and about 12 to 18 hours, there would be some wind that will break it down. th...

>> yes, we are prepared for it as best we can. we have all of our plans in place about 8:00 p.m. last night and we are just sort of hunkered down. we made plans. we at least figured some point, once it starts hitting us that we are going to get all the windows smashed out. we will end up moving to the stairwell, which is the most protected part of the building. abby: david, can you give a sense of what it looks like right now? you are inside looking out the window of your building. >> actually i...