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Raining. there were people walking around, walking their dogs. the bottom line is if you haven't evacuated and not under a mandatory order, in fact, officials said in most places, in new orleans, you probably will be fine. you probably won't need to evacuate, but then it became evident like now, this might be a bit unsafe. by the way, we take a lot of precautions. this is probably my 15n or 16th hurricane. we do learn about what to stand behind and what to not be in front of so we don't expose ourselves to danger. but the message is, don't play around. don't try it at home. some of the danger ...

Sarasota. the hurricane came abruptly 20 miles of us and wind it was near 100 120 miles per hour. >> jon: how does it compare with other storms you have been in? >> most of the time i'm chasing tornadoes and it is very comparable to tornado chasing except it's a very long duration tornado if you want to look at it that way. these wind speeds are very comparable to tornadoes. we had a wind system of over 13. that is easily a category three tornado. i very long-duration of high wind speed event. >> jon: what are the folks there where you are saying about it in comparison to other florida hurrica...

Eye would come ashore. describe what it was like to weather the storm there in hollywood and broward county a little bit north of miami. >> fortunately we are all doing very well, nobody got hurt. as the storm hit my family and i stayed together, we work as a team, we got a good workout protecting the apartment for almost 24 hours straight from the wrath of the hurricane. we lost power almost immediately, we lost running water. the powerful winds forced water through my sliding glass doors and windows but with help of my family we were able to continuously drain the water with towels and bucke...

We are a barrier island, low-lying, we know what blood level is about because we are experience rising. those efforts seem to have helped during the brunt of the hurricane what we really didn't get the type of flooding that other areas did. we were able to pump a lot of the water out pretty quickly. the big challenge, of course, as you can imagine was getting people to evacuate. everyone becomes a little bit of a disbeliever even though you see this nuclear hurricane coming in your direction you have to kind of bleed with the people and convince them they have to leave. we were successful. we ...

Still a big system, no longer a hurricane but there is your center of low pressure there, what once was irma continuing to spend, looking through portions of georgia. it's really become a rainmaker as it will doubtless direction. everything you're saying here, the darker colors, that was getting up to 8-10, in some cases 12 inches of total precipitation. you add that on the east side and that's where we've seen a little bit more of this high water. the storm surge and the flooding from the rain has moved in. the east coast of florida are running up the east coast to georgia, carolina. all area...