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Got some hurricane complacency that's involved but for those who do leave the barrier island, they want to know, a, if i work on the mainland and i have to evacuate, will i be able to get over the causeway to my home and then others who live on the barrier island want to know well, when will you close the causeway. we don't close the causeways until after a storm just to assess whether there's been any damage to the causeways and it would be unsafe for people to return home. just inundated for probably the last 72 hours with questions on social media from people, when did the causeways close. ...

Issue of life or death. >> it's tough to leave your home, we understand that but we've been trying very hard all week to get the word out to people that this is a life-threatening and extremely dangerous storm and we hoped our shelters one hour after the mandatory evacuation started yesterday, we have a good number of people at our shelters right now, roughly about 2,500 people. we expect the number to increase into the evening hours and we told people it's never too late to evacuate and if they have any doubts and their safety or their families' safety they need to make those moves and get ou...