suspect, throughout the evening and tomorrow morning, we will get more moments like this where it just comes at you in a wave and there is very little you can do to defend yourself against it. the power of mother nature is really an incredible, but also very scary thing. >> certainly is, patrick. be careful over there. good luck to you. good luck to all the folks in cuba. louie uccellini, the national weather service director, is with us. explain what you just saw. this hurricane is moving north of cuba, but the outer banks are beginning showily but surely to have an impact. >> yes. as the storm moves to the west and it is rotating counter clockwise, these bands spin-off. looked like what happened, happened to your correspondent, he got hit by one of those bands and they do come on real fast and very powerful winds and very heavy rainfall associated with them. >> that's only a tiny fraction of what we can anticipate in florida. >> right. well, florida will be on the what we call the wrong side of the storm, north and east side.