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Pretty good shape. the biggest concern is probably getting the power back on because the wind and the heavy rains took down a lot of poles. the ground was saturated, they've been getting rain for days here. there's a lot of work left to be done in comparing the infrastructure, not just here in volusia but across the state where millions of people are without power. >> jon: we are seeing some of the footage that your crew shot of the flooding in the streets. as most of that receded now or is that still a problem? >> the floodwaters certainly have receded in this area were we are standing now. t...

Of hurricane irma but the city is still faced with a huge laundry list of issues in the storm's wake. mike tobin joins us now from tampa. mike. >> reporter: jon, the way one police officer reported to me in the early morning hours as the storm had evaded this town, at this time got lucky. now they're trying to get back to normal. we watched as the boards came down from the windows in the stores opened up. the damage out here not as expensive as was. but the damage really came into forms, or exist in two forms i should say. there was flooding. to the west of here is lakeland, florida, there we ...

After andrew, there were new building codes in much of florida, but does there have to be a focus on reconstruction and where residential areas can build? >> i think we know a lot more now post-katrina in 2005. people thought that was just because we were below sea level. now you saw houston. you saw sandy really hurt the northeast and now you see florida devastated. these storms are going to continue to come our way. we have to build more solid, we have to build better. as you can see, each one of these storms is different. they'll bring you a different threat. in harvey, it was about poundin...

Still a big system, no longer a hurricane but there is your center of low pressure there, what once was irma continuing to spend, looking through portions of georgia. it's really become a rainmaker as it will doubtless direction. everything you're saying here, the darker colors, that was getting up to 8-10, in some cases 12 inches of total precipitation. you add that on the east side and that's where we've seen a little bit more of this high water. the storm surge and the flooding from the rain has moved in. the east coast of florida are running up the east coast to georgia, carolina. all area...

Hours but we've seen costs getting up to 55, 60 miles per hour. we still have some, even as system continues to spread they are very consistent in the 30s and hour after hour of that and then you begin to see some damage. i'm sure that's the case for folks in portions of north georgia stretching over into alabama and the carolinas. here's the radar, pay attention to the time-stamp. all you will see is a very slow move up to the north and then just a spreading out. by tomorrow i'm thinking we're going to be seeing heavy showers moving through charlotte. all the way back across the mississippi. ...