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swift boats, all ready to move in and begin to go door-to-door when it is clear enough to be able to do so. power outages have slammed half a million. that is the latest number that we have over the course of this hour that we're now in. floridians on the ground as ian barrels towards their homes, their businesses. we have people all across the state with updates about different sections of the state, what it feels like, what's going on there. fox team coverage with all of our great weather team out there spread across the state as well. we begin with katie burn who is in orlando. ka...

Quickly this storm grew and how quickly it moved. did that give enough folks on the ground time to prepare or get out? >> preparation really was flat footed. people thought that a category two was coming and they didn't do what they normally would do with a category four or five. this really tells the story here. we're at a marina here. this is called legendary marinm. you can see the damage created by the storm. >> oh my goodness. >> reporter: it's amazing. when you look at the rotation of the hurricane winds, this is actually coming off of the intracoastal waterway as opposed to coming in fr...

Have the power crews coming in. they've got more than 5,000 linemen that are going to be out trying to restore power in the affected areas. that takes time. you have to remove downed trees, reset poles, get the lines up. if you are somewhere else because you did evacuate, you probably want to take a day or so before you really assess coming back. just on panama city beach, people stayed put. they're waking up without power. there are no reports from the fire department that there were any serious injuries during the storm, but they did say their phones were ringing off the hook with people cal...

Tallahassee has so many treats. is this a scene that you see repeated there in tallahassee, lots of downed trees with power line issues? or did they really dodge a bullet, comparatively speaking? >> reporter: we were driving around the city this morning. we've seen scenes similar to this one. but really considering the magnitude of this storm, this was a historic hurricane. the city of tallahassee released its first ever extreme wind warning yesterday. consider the magnitude, this kind of damage is quite rare here. people are saying they really did dodge a bullet. as hurricane michael slamme...

Two miles an hour under a category 5. the strongest winds felt since andrew in 1992. >> this quickly escalated to hurricane. the fact that it is still fast-moving some say it is a silver lining. but did that also catch people by surprise? were people able to get prepared for this hurricane? what did you see on the ground there in terms of preparations and now the aftermath. >> i think you make a terrific point. it was a tropical storm on saturday and almost a category 5 yesterday. it caught a lot of people off guard. didn't have the runup to these storms like we normally see. most of the peopl...