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To get planes there before hand because we just knew that that was a monster of a storm and we were going to have to get people out afterwards. >> how bad did the conditions in st. martin get. did you guys have enough food and water when you were going through this. >> i would say our resort particularly did just because we did ask people to prepare a few days before, told them to get three to four days worth of food and stock up water so most of our guests already had that. all of our kitchens and everything in our resort already started to prepare for that. so we were in good shape regarding...

Before and after satellite image i should say of areas ravaged by hurricane irma. we're looking at them now. explain the differences you see. >> when you look at the satelliteim pa satellite images, what they show is in the green image you see a completely forested, especially st. john's island, almost completely cover in forest and then after the category 5 hurricane irma passed through you see a complete defoliation of all of the vegetation on the island. it's remarkable, something i've never seen before, only thing comparable is looking at isolated tornado tracks where you have a narrow str...

You helped rescue hundreds of americans who were stranded on st. martin after the storm hit. you were planning to evacuate the island but the hotel director called to ask you to stay because of your previous experience with hurricaness so what made you decide to stay, trinity? >> i guess just that, one there were no flights out, and two because i had gone through the hurricanes before. i knew what our guests were going to need at the hotel. and so i did go ahead and stay because i wasn't able to get out either. and started to make phone calls to get help prior to the hurricane hitting. >> so y...

And, like i say, i feel bad for the others, but we feel relieved that we think that we're going to -- 180-mile storm like was hitting the caribbean earlier compared to 100-mile storm, it's a big difference. >> yeah, well, we'll put clearwater on our list of communities we concerned about, and we're hoping for the very best. mayor, thank you for joining us. >> can i just take one more second because you all haven't mentioned this yrket, or i havet heard it yet. a shoutout to our first responders and our families of the first responders because they are on call now, and their families are just s...

Power is out. we're running off battery power. you may see power blinking on and off as we jerryrig together the circuitry. the wind is now attacking us this way. the duration of the storm is something. but the best news out of naples so far is just that far is that surge is looking like it is not going to approach 10 or 15 feet which would have produced a tremendous amount of damage. a more manageable range for naples. the wind is still out, but earlier, about 30 minutes ago, i saw cars driving. i imagine those are police officers starting to make patrols. i think overnight and in the early m...