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Go east from panama city. you've got mexico beach, which got it straight from the gulf. there is not a barrier island. then the little town of port saint joe. it is protected by a peninsula called cape sandblast. and then you go east to appalachia cola. there were reporters in appalachia cola. we haven't had anybody tell us what happened in mexico beach. the road is going to be completely impassable. they're going to have to get chain saws out to get through. it's going to be a task. and, chris, your report about the gulf being 4 degrees warmer, when are we going to wake up and realize that th...

Find devastation, particularly mexico beach, because there's no barrier island outside of it, so it was getting the full force of the wind and the water. further east port st. joe is a natural harbor with a cape around it, cape sandblast. it would have had some protection, but no doubt it's going to be like not anything we've seen since hurricane andrew in 1992 down south of miami. it's going to be like that over there in those small little populated areas. they will be flattened completely. >> what's your number one concern right now, senator? >> well, that's why i'm here. i'm here to make su...

Saint joe. it is protected by a peninsula called cape sandblast. and then you go east to appalachia cola. there were reporters in appalachia cola. we haven't had anybody tell us what happened in mexico beach. the road is going to be completely impassable. they're going to have to get chain saws out to get through. and, chris, your report about the gulf being 4 degrees warmer, when are we going to wake up and realize that the earth is heating up and 90% of that extra heat is absorbed by the oceans? it's no question about it. the science is strong on it people don't want to hear it but it doesn'...

Businesses here in the downtown, they're boarded up. they've sandsandbagged. the back of the hotel was a little further inland, and once the rain, the wind rather, starts to pick up here as the storm officially makes landfall in the next few hours, we plan to ride it out there. as you can see, the water here is really starting to get rough, and the water's really starting to kick in to the downtown, potentially damaging all of the businesses in this historic area, craig. >> gabe, be safe and make sure the crew's safe as well. just west of gabe, nbc's mariana atencio in port st. joe, florida....

Small businesses, and people just deciding i'm going to hunker down here and not really sort of knowing the real danger facing 24 hours later with this storm that's just shy of a category 5. i was with the mayor bo patterson that you interviewed yesterday in cape sandblast which is south about here about 15 minutes. they had put up their years past rocks to prevent the roads of being inundated from waves and underwater now. it is a storm moving fast and wrecking havoc in the area. >> you were in the hotel. does the hotel have power, water, ample resources and food? >> reporter: we lost everyth...