yeah, it's going to slow down, it's not going to be a 4, it will be a 3 or a 2. this was as advertised, my friend, if not fiercer. i kept watching and thought there's not much room for it to slow down. i think we were all stunned by how quickly it spun up. it felt like it went from zero to 60 or in this case zero to 150 in a couple of hours. >> i'll be the first to admit, we have a lot of development to do for intensity forecasting. three days ago this was supposed to be a low end category 1 hurricane. three days ago that was the prediction at landfall, and here we are, we almost had a category 5. >> two miles short of a category 5. lester, thank you. lester is in panama city, beach. i went to go to apalachicola, a coastal city where they are continuing to experience strong wind gusts as well as flooding and storm surge up to 7 feet above normal levels according to the latest reports from the national hurricane center.