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Early morning when the storm is supposed to really pick up. >> good advice, sarah we appreciate that. get back to you. turn now to reed timer, acuweather extreme meteorologist. >> i'm in coco beach, northeast of center of hurricane matthew. winds gusting periodically as spiral bands coming in and bunch of power flashes, observed four or five, hoping to capture a few for you. become more frequent as winds ramp up. in between bands, can see in the distance, just had transformer pop above me. but worst off to the southwest, early morning hours winds will amp up, especially if the inner

Which they often will go out with some of the power flashes. and then sometimes they come back on slowly. but, yeah, you really have to watch what's in the road and the debris that's flying at you and all kinds of things. it's around. >> what are you dealing with in terms of flooding on the street and any storm surge. >> i haven't seen any storm surge as of yet. i have mostly been thinking to u.s. 1 through a lot of my travels and also through a1a further south. i'm just getting into cape canaveral. i haven't explored this area. the main roads okay. how long that lasts, i don't know. >> what a...

>> yeah, chris, right now we're in a lull. the winds have slowed down since the last time we got a chance to talk to you. still very, very nasty out. we've seen several power flashes, as you mentioned. the lights have been on but flickering on and off down the street. when i had a chance to look down there a few moments ago. the palm trees swinging in the wind. bending pretty far at one point and a ton of debris all over the street and one of the most interesting things is banging all over the place and really difficult to make out what it is. you don't want to risk yourself by going out and s...

>> what did you see last night? >> i was up and down the coast. i started off at jupiter beach florida and working my way north ward here and a lot of power flashes and parts flying over my car and a lot of trees down. a little bit of coastal flooding but not much left. i ended up in cocoa beach and cape canaveral and a lot of wind damage and trees down and walls damaged and high winds. this morning -- i worked my way over daytona beach where there was a storm surge affecting that area. >> we have been having the conversation of the video we are showing right now. this is video that you had sh...

Through exactly what you saw. you saw the devastation. was it hailing on you? were you having a hard time seeing the thing? when you first saw this thing, what did you think? >> i thought, well, oh, my gosh, here we go. it's going to be a major tornado. and when we were driving right behind the tornado, we had a piece of insulation and shingles falling from the sky, and along with seeing multiple power flashes as the tornado was going through right across interstate 30 and along lake hubbard. >> well, like i said in the beginning here, we are just grateful you're okay. >> thank you. >> thank y...