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>> if it does not reduce, the category 4 will take out much of the infrastructure. and you know, when we were talking about florence, we said that fit came in at a category 4 in that area, it would be in some cases like a weapon of mass destruction, and category 4 will take out the grid inside of the cone, because the topography there and the vegetation is so heavy in that part, and the forest to the left, the apalachicola fortoast the west, and the powerlines and roads are going to be hard to the access. if you are going up towards tallahassee and the beautiful city there of tallahassee a lot...

Line. when they go down, it can take days to get back up. distribution lines can take weeks in isolated areas. >> that's an important point. a storm of this category can take down harder infrastructure than just trees and simple polls. general, always good to see you, thank you. >> ali, i just keep thinking, 155 mile-per-hour winds. we saw those images from mexico beach and the amount of mobile homes could simply be decimated. we can only hope those people did evacuate. >> that's it for this hour. our special coverage of hurricane michael continues after this. you're watching msnbc. got it? go...

If you lose power and the distribution lines go down, you can go two to three weeks, a month without power. >> that's an important point, general. they are not talking hours or even days. they are planning for weeks. so even if you stay, even if you play it right and now you have access to your property and an ability to recover, you don't have the resources to do it. you will be living in a very rough situation because although you'll be surrounded by water it's like the old fable, water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. the water goes from runoff to not being potable to toxic soup v...

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Get your domain today and get a free trial of gocentral. build a better website in under an hour. i love you. last thing before we go here tonight. life in puerto rico. over a month now since the storm. the short answer is this. life is no better for hundreds of thousands of american citizens there. power remains out for an estimated 80% of the customers across the island. and it's more than replacing poles and stringing cable and swinging a switch. puerto rico is going about replacing its grid. 2,400 miles of big transmission line, 30,000 miles of the smaller distribution lines, 300 power s...