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State, anything like this. i mean, 15 feet of storm surge above the ground level, thats -- i dont know how you survive that. >> i dont know how you survive that. thats florida governor rick scott not minimum sing words there. its not to be confused with a tide. all this pink is storm surge its when winds from a incoming hurricane push massive amounts of water into the shoreline. entire homes can be submerged. its a rapid rise of water within minutes. storm surges are fast, not tsunamis, but fast...

>> okay. so your ground level may get water. thats like parking for a lot of people under the house. >> correct. >> he wont get water -- you wont get water in the first floor. so you are counting on the engineering of the stilts to be able to with stand however many hours of water and the soil and the concrete poured underneath to hold up the house for the most part. >> yes. correct. >> thats the gamble youre taking. >> yes. this house also has a cement wall all the way around it. >> youre not c...

This could easily happen with those 100-mile-an-hour winds regardless of the track. so thats why were telling people, if you left, keep doing what youre doing, get somewhere safe and dont second guess yourself now, because this could move, as well. a new american tradition, signage on the buildings, stay away, irma, were seeing that everywhere. >> and to our friends in places like miami, it is also true that in a high rise, the wind speed increases as the floors increase. its not impossible to g...

Weve put a lot of effort calling around to seniors. doctor phillips is calling, we are talking to everybody. were making ourselves accessible and how to get a hold of us. i hope that doesnt happen. what concerns you a lot is that the storm moved west and for some people that surprised them. weve seen more shelters put up in the past 24 hours as this has moved west. the storm surge numbers, its totally different than anybody anything that anybodys ever seen. they havent seen anything like this. s...

>> well, i care about every citizen in the state. evacuations are not convenient. they are just not. shelters are not like your house. they are not. but the most important thing you can do is worry about your life and thats what i worry about every day. i want every person in the state to survive this storm. and so i tell everybody if you are in an evacuation zone, you need to get to a shelter, you need to goatet to a friends ho, a safe place. and then everybody should have three days of water a...

Youve seen of it coming compared to what youve lived through. >> well, like charlie like this almost at this point. we didnt expect much then but i think were going to have more from this storm than we did charlie. >> did you ever evacuate? >> no, theres too many things i can do to help people once the storm is over with and i have another business i need to help with. theres a lot of things we can do to help here. >> your home is it on ground level? is it raised up? >> my homes a ground level, ...

Above the ground level, thats -- i dont know how you survive that. >> governor, what would you say -- a lot of the folks that came up here basically from south florida, now theyre more in the path than south florida. should they stay here or request go somewhere else? >> i think you should follow the weather and see whats going to happen. i mean, look, if you -- youre not going to drive back to storm surge, right? you shouldnt be driving back to, you know, to 120, 150-mile-per-hour win. the goal...

Wind pushes the water to the shoreline. five to ten feet means thats the amount of water thats going to be above ground level at the coast where it normally the water ends. you have five to ten feet. that will progress inland as well. on top of that we have very high and sometimes damaging powerful waves. so we have a rise of the water as well as waves on top of that. thats why we have the greatest concern along the coast and the florida keys in particular. this area in red here is the entire ar...

Whatsoever where were at. would i ride out a storm again? yes. where were at. >> our meteorologist bill -- go ahead, brian. >> thats about it. go ahead. >> our meteorologist was just asking precisely where you were. i was telling him youre in key largo, just south? >> south of key largo, taverniers near the high school. its a shelter a street over. >> bill, this is bill cone riding this thing out. >> brian, how high is your stilts? >> the ground level is 12 and a half feet. then its stilts above...

And go in strong structures like parking garages and get off of the ground level because of the storm surge. and that is it flooding everything in its path. >> it really is. and the wind is whipping up where you are now. when am you start to see the bands, whipping toward over the keys, i think it looks like is where it will start, right? >> yeah, hurricane irma is only 300 miles off of the florida peninsula. you will see conditions deteriorating. this is biscayne bay. you can see the waves are ...