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worried her roof might collapse. elizabeth, were you on the fence about whether or not you were going to evacuate. >> i was so afraid either way, i didn't know what to do. >> a lot of people have that idea that they can just wait and see what's going to happen. and that's the problem, because if they wait to see, we won't be able to help them. >> reporter: and it's not just seniors refusing to leave, going viral online, some florida residents adamant about riding out the storm. >> our family lives right outside of tampa and we have decided to hunker down. >> for the people who are no...

Far? >> reporter: mika, joe, good morning. what we're seeing is the wind starting to pick up. we are in the bradenton area, just north of sarasota. and you can see that the wind is picking up here. this is the bay of sarasota. behind it is the gulf of mexico. we're seeing some movement there of the wind. i'm going to tell you, just coming into where we are in this location, we're already seeing how there are a lot of areas that are boarded up. there are a lot of, quite frankly, homes that don't have any lights in them and no cars, so i would think that a lot of people took heed of the governor...