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Something about it. that is more true of this storm than it even was of florence. >> absolutely. we're not talking about a heavy industrial area where you have high income. what you have is high investment property along the coast there. as you move in to florida up toward tallahassee, you have a large concentration of vulnerable population. the right front quadrant is going to have a significant impact by all prediction on tallahassee. as of this morning, they only had 57 shelters open in florida. i expect that number is going to go up significantly when the power goes out because people will...

Miles from mexico beach so we're just outside the inner wall so to speak of that bad band. but it sounds exactly like a jet plane but a jet plane that wasn't going to ever take off but rev its engine for three hours. >> what do you expect to happen? what have you been told? as you said you have some affiliation with the local government but what are you being told to expect? are you expecting to be out of power for a long time? what happens next? >> it's unknown. the power went out about 11:00 this morning throughout the town. the city turned the sewer system off yesterday as a matter of fact ...

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...

The window. the window is cracked. i'm going to try to get the microphone over here. i lost something. lost my phone. i want to let you hear what it sounds like for a second. it's like a jet engine blowing past us. when we had the window open, it was running parallel to us. driving water, standing water, some minor flooding in the parking lot but trees falling down, bending over. very concerned about some of the power lines in this area. hard to know how many people are staying in this hotel. it's a three-story, brick hotel. we chose it because it's place we could shelter. it was a place out o...

You would think a place like tallahassee is used this kind of weather but this is an unprecedented storm for this part of florida. people are taking as many precautions as they can. the big thing is trees. that's their thing. 50% of the city is covered in trees. every time they get this weather, the trees fall on houses, cars and power lines. i was talking to the mayor a couple howevers ago. he was saying that's the real concern because last time they had a hurricane, it knocked out -- it affected 90% of the electrical grid. that's what they are worried about this time. 90% of the electrical g...