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Of trying to ride out the storm. they had dogs they wanted to let out to let them run around. people were also curious to see this just weird phenomenon of this water being sucked out by the counterclockwise motion of the storm, the energy of that pulling the water out of this river, out into tampa bay. of course, and it's really down. it's down probably about 10 feet from where it was around 10:00 a.m. this morning. you can see a sandy bank on the other side of the river which wasn't there when we started out this morning. of course, now, throughout the day, people have been wondering, okay, ...

We're starting to see a few people actually come out here in punta gorda as well. the rain is starting to come down, the wind is starting to come down, and it seems like the city is coming back to life and feel a little more sure of itself. no clear sense if there was any damage, to any serious degree by the emergency management folks. they said it looks like they're going to start getting out and looking around the county a little earlier than they expected. so, that is good news. don? >> i want you to stand by, miguel, because we want to get to alex in sarasota, florida. it's north of punta ...

You very much. anderson mentioned miguel marqu marquez, so let's check in with miguel. he's in punta gorda, devastated by hurricane charley back in 2004. what are you seeing there, miguel? >> reporter: the weather has certainly changed. the rain has stopped coming down. we may be -- if there is an eye left, we may be in the middle of that, but whatever was going out earlier, it doesn't seem because of the -- because of the storm just jogged over to the east quite a bit. it was all day long tracking to the west of punta gorda and we were expecting a very big storm surge here but because it ve...

Off for the past two hours or so. we've been out several times for a couple seconds or couple minutes. it would be surprising if over the next hour hours when these winds really pick up -- there's another gust there, if the power stays on. so far it is right now. now, as miguel was saying, this storm is now tracking in a different direction. we were expecting the eye of irma to pass right over us around midnight pu now it. now it's tracking to the east, 20 to 30 miles to the east. what we are expecting starting right now at 10:00 p.m. is sustained winds of 80 miles per hour going all the way u...