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I think the storm surge now will be our biggest threat. the wind will be damaging, but not to our structures. we have good construction standards. the problem we'll have is this small town has about 20 trees, and those tree are going to go down, then block the roads and they'll rip up water and sewer lines. we'll provide water and suer for as long as possible. and then restore the system to make sure that people have that vital service. >> quick note, the governor has a home here in naples, but that wasn't driving his concern. he's saying it's uniquely vulnerable to storm surge, and before the...

Surge. before being on this morning, i walked down to the waters just a few walks around from here, on the gulf side, it was already right up to the edge. that was before anything happened. we also have a crain right over our shoulder, another part of the vulnerables here, what will happen in high winds. another thing that they have to monitor. that's why the calls for evacuation were so serious. not everybody heeded them we have wayne pluhoff. he decided to stick it out. wayne, how are you? >> caller: good morning, how are you? >> i'm doing well, thank god. we haven't seen the worse of what w...

Not losing any intensity, really, whatsoever. >> reporter: it comes down to duration. tell me this, when does the storm surge component kick in and what do we look for there? >> the storm surge comes in after the center of the eye moves by and the bubble of water moves under the eye itself and pushes on to land. now this is opposite of what we expect when an eye makes landfall on an east coast, this is a west coast, so the west coast now has the no water on the north and the water slam storm surge on the south side of the eye. water's been pulled out of tampa bay, pulled out of port charlotte ...

Steady tropical storm force winds and hurricane force gusts, we're beginning to see roof damage and pieces of roof coming off, and trees are just getting shredded. you know, just imagine taking a tree and stripping it out of all its leaves. that's what this constant wind has been doing to foliage that's around the area. we have not only seen all that wind, water damage but wind as well. >> sam, thank you very much for that. as you're talking, we're able to see the bands coming through. we keep making the point, the storm is not yet parallel on the gulf side to where sam is on the atlantic side...

I think it's one of the harvest moons coming up. mayor, thank you very much. we're going let you get back to work and we really appreciate it. i want you to stay with us because we've been talking about how people have had to evacuate from the state of florida. there are some people that decided that evacuation might be too chaotic so they decided to hunker down. there are people on the east coast that decided to go west and didn't know where to go from there. now, as the storm has changed, which area would be safe. so straight ahead, we've got the former florida governor joining us. he is now...