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Can move around pretty good. >> reporter: i was there in your community yesterday when the eye was moving over, and there were a couple crazy hours with the winds of 100 miles per hour sustained and gusts of 120 miles per hour. what was it like for you doing those moments? >> i was in a pretty safe place. we just built a couple buildings in the city and built them to hurricane code. the code things are built by now make an awful lot of difference. you feel safe in it because you dont feel the mo...

People want to explore. they want to check on their property. they want to look for damage. but there is the potential for debris, scattered on the ground. perhaps downed power lines and also if you end up walking too far, you might get hit by the other side of the eye and then once again, hurricane force winds resume. only in the opposite direction. during this brief lull we are sort of surveying the damage just near our live location, seeing some homes and buildings. we have not noticed any st...

Hurricane andrew, leaving probably 60 to 70% of them not up to hurricane code. >> theres a fear that dike could forbreach. >> thats why we initiated the mandatory evacuation but of course the storm has shifted sort of the -- and theres always a major concern about the dike and so thats always the concern here. and thats why we issued mandatory evacuations. right now our major concern is can the substandard home with stand the velocity? >> what would that mean for your community? >> that were hom...

Stay. that plan better be in being in higher ground in this area. after andrew, building codes were changed. in south florida. we are told constantly the bill buildings here are a lot stronger. one thing is people should know is not every building was built after andrew. >> lot of the buildings were pre andrew but i will tell you the south florida folks got it right. changed the building codes. so new homes are built in a new hurricane code. when you retrofitted it theres a possibility to bring ...

What that was like. there is no known loss of life. we are waiting on the structural damage report, find out whether buildings went down or not. hopefully that wasnt the case. i should point out, the bahamas experience this regularly. they are experienced. many buildings are built to hurricane code. where we are, the largest population center in nassau, the capitol, another piece of good news, we are not going to get hurricane force winds here. we are going to get tropical storm force winds. the...

Though small changes, at the end, you dont get a lot of heads up on that. you have to be prepared for the worst. >> jon: people frankly arent prepared for how terrifying they can be, especially if you are anywhere close to the eye, what do you say to those people who might be thinking of sticking around and waiting this one out? >> for some people, if you are in a structure that is built to hurricane code, it makes sense not to get on the road, you may drive right into it. for those who are in m...

Quarter. so if its a little to the west of you, thats almost the worst thing cause that means youre taking this right across. >> gretchen: how did the rebuilding of mississippi, how will that come into play now, if in fact, there is storm surge or any damage? >> gretchen, if the winds pick up, it will be a huge difference because we lost 63,000 units of housing on the mississippi gulf coast. a lot of them built before world war ii. everything has been rebuilt according to the new hurricane code....