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This point. but i was present at an engineers conference, in orlando, and i had the original plans, the inspection reports and different pictures and we all got together im talking about structural engineers with 20, 30 years of experience and were all scratching our heads but this is the kind of scenarios that we were looking at and coming up with all sorts of theories. but at the end of the day its the experts that are there in the field trying to piece together this extremely complex puzzle t...

Order. cnns bill wear in key lar go. >> people have stayed. tens of thousands, about 75,000 people call the keys home. conservative estimate a half to two thirds sort of honored that order and gotten out of here but some you aare hunkering down. irmas so much bigger. im hearing from it brave hurricane partiers we were with last night. theyre getting out as well. the one guy who knows this sort of thing very well, don anderson, that came south -- you were here for wilma? >> yeah. i didnt stick fo...

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 ...

You can see, its a metal tie. >> reporter: construction cranes, and extra steel added, the hoist allowed to swing free like a weather vein. >> this is open to the bay. >> reporter: so the standards today are as meticulous as they can be? >> absolutely. >> reporter: much different than what? >> different than pre-andrew. >> reporter: not since hurricane andrew in 1992 has south florida prepared for such a potentially destructive storm. tall buildings like the 62 story, 1,000 museum, far different...

>> i have a plan b? >> i may last minute if its going to be a 4 or 5. but if it stays below that im stick tg out. >> does it worry you if you do get trapped emergency officials cant get to you because youre not alone. i heard a ton of people here saying theyre sticking this out. theyve lived through hurricane andrew and theyre going to stick it out. does it worry you this would be the one? >> it does but im pretty confident im watching the weather and news and keeping track with the storm. if it...

Powerful hurricane force winds. right over lake okay a choeb be. >> theyve drained that lack and a lot of the canals beneath it. how concerned are you that could be vulnerable to overflowing? >> i think its certainly a potential, not on top of the list, i think that the keys no the being fully evacuated as was told on the previous report. thats what concerns you. 40 to 50,000 people may have stayed behind. now if we get a direct impact with the eye of that storm and 10-foot surge, that covers th...