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It on its side like straight out of the wizard of oz. scott, come on in, sir. you have been incredible. to wait with us as we got a signal. come closer to me. thank you so much. this is scott. scott is -- lives in mexico beach. your home was right here. you rode it out. >> we stayed. we thought that the hurricane was not going to increase but decrease. we tried to stay until the day before yesterday, and then after the bridges all closed and everything, we knew we had to stay here and bunker down, so you can see behind me and stuff how all the homes, when the surge came in and stuff, it was so...

Even when we have a near-miss hurricane potentially. still a lot of work to be done before we can give the all-clear. before it's time to go back to the status quo. >> on your on earlier point on complacency for those people still dithering, still undecided on what to do, what do you say to them? >> well, at this point, it's too late to evacuate. we'll be getting probably the strongest of our tropical storm winds rooifing in the next couple of hours and they'll be here until, you know, much of tomorrow. at this point, bunker down, stay at home. wherever you are. stay alert to the communication...

Because we know just how fickle irma has been. i want to show you one other thing before my time is up here. this is a storm surge where you see the red, zoom in and all the way from the florida keys, the highest point is about 12 feet of sea level. you can see a storm surge of 5 to 10 feet, it'll be underwater, marco island. all these areas could be inundated with 10-15 feet of water. this is an estimate at this point. then as we go up the coast towards port charlotte this beautiful area where a lot of these inlets, santa bell, capetillo va those are areas that could be 15 feet storm surge. p...