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like a freight train. we re seeing record-breaking and terrifying storm surges throughout florida and ft. myers, the water is so high pickup trucks are almost completely submerged. water levels have risen more than 6 feet in the last switch ho seven hours. let s get to tom sater in the cnn weather center. an updated forecast should come any minute now. what should we expect? it was just handed to me. forgive me for reading off. we still have a category 4 hurricane and five miles east of punta gorda. it will stay at hurricane strength through orlando. this will rake the entire peninsula. we had grove city a gust of 128. when we talk about the southern kind here, a better picture on radar will give an indication what we re looking at. here is the new track. keeps it as a 4 of course now moving inland but notice it s a category one. it will lose strength now that it s interacting with a land mass. that s typical. however, the winds have expanded now as these storms do. ....
to be seen. there are programs that fema has. but it is not going to be commensurate to having had a policy. this is an issue we will have to d deal with. we deal with this. when you have this about the homeowners policy will cover certain things, but the flood policy covers probably the most significant risk for most homeowners in florida given the risk of flooding that we have in so many parts of our state. so we re sensitive to that. there is, obviously, going to be some folks that are going to be in need of support and relief and we are, obviously, going to work as best we can. i will say that people have been asking about some of the overall homeowners insurance with like citizens. citizens i think right now between 6 and 7 billion of surplus. their modelling for this was that they would still have between 4 and 5 billion in surplus. so they view themselves as being able to weather this. individual carriers have to go through a stress test to be able to have their ....
Helpful and he said ask, whatever you need, ask us. so he was inviting us to request support. so we think that this is probably the best thing we can get at this juncture given what we are dealing with. hopefully, we will get a favorable response on that. this is, obviously, a big flooding event. lot of these places might not have flood insurance. do you have a sense of how exposed a lot of these people are who don t have coverage? not yet. i think the issue is significant in the sense these are not people that necessarily live in a, quote, flood zone. the realtor says they are not in a flood zone and they don t get the flood insurance. just because you are in a flood zone doesn t mean you are not at risk for catastrophic event like this. i think you will see some, clearly, how many, that remains ....