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16,000 restoration workers. it's arguably not just the most preset, prestaged before the storm but actually in the u.s. in history. so we're ready to get at it. we're going to have some challenges today because the weather is going to prevent us from getting out, particularly with the high wind. once the wind subsides in certain areas such as miami-dade, tri-county area, moving up the east coast, we'll get about restoration. what we're saying to our customers, the real challenge on the east coast, we're talking about days. it's going to be a restoration, repairing equipment. on the west coast ...

In a safe room, interior room or closet in your home with no windows at this point, especially here in the lower keys where you're going to see the eye wall wind. that's almost winds of a tornado coming through but over a very, very large area and for a long period of time. you're going to want tbe in the safest room you can find, lowest floor of a building. the proem is, the storm surge is going to come, too. you have to -- that's why people were told to evacuate to begin with, because the combination of the surge and the winds, so deadly there. >> then we're going to see it going up the coas...

Of florida has to prepare for major hurricane landfall potential going through today and tonight into monday. not just from the wind hazard, the storm surge. we were mentioning the 10 to 15 feet of inundation that we were concerned about from cap tetiva naples, life threatening surge here. we could see surge as high as eight feet up into the tampa bay region, big bend, very dangerous day. also, widespread this wind impacts across the entire state of florida. it will see sustained winds. along the west coast and into the central part of the state. hurricane forced wind gusts will be widespread....

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