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Witnessed the major talking about and that's transformers breaking. as the storm moves up and gets hurricane-force winds inside of counties and cities, they need to consider taking the grid down. if you don't take the grid down all the transformers are going to blow. so you're viewing the tomorrow, having to put the wires back and having to find transformers to replace. so we continue to learn how we respond to these storms and then the next challenge is, will the distribution lines go down? and will the surge water, how high it's going to get in tampa and west palm beach? those are big issues...

On the category of storm. the amount of surge water that can come in and over mind your house that you're in as we saw in sandy, it wasn't even a category one but the surge water can destroy the home and get people trapped in low-lying areas. so again, i think the message should have been louder and clearer all day move away from the coastline and definitively tell the people to move away as opposed to trying to shelter in place or wait until the storm passed so we can get on with the 4th of july weekend. more people should have cancelled trips. i hope i'm a mission of call in the dark here to...

East coast hurricane, which all raises questions about our electric dwrid grid. trace galler has more from the breaking news desk. >> reporter: you make a good point when. a hurricane comes they have several days to get ready. this was a dry land hurricane. it came without warning and it stretched for some 700 miles, right? we're talking from illinois to d.c. all the way up to new jersey. as of right now, ohio, virginia, and maryland described the damage to their power grids as, i'm quoting here, catastrophic. and here's the process. first they have to repair the substations that send power ou...

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