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Kissimmee and other places across the state of florida today. lot of older folks willing moved out of their homes to safer ground. lot of them said they wanted to stay put but they started watching the forecast and here's what they said. >> well, i was all set to stay home until they had to turn the water off. i would have done fine. i had plenty of food there that i could eat cold or, you know f the power went off. >> i'm more scared about this one than i have ever been in one in florida before. i have not seen one be 185 miles an hour. that's too scary. >> reporter: dana, there is a hurrican...

Most of the power has already been restored. they restored over 60,000 customers. we're estimated to only have about 100 customers who don't have power right now. just shows how doing good preparation can make a huge difference. even though we had some really strong winds and gusts and power outages last night, it's already starting. it's not done. we may still get some of our strongest winds over the next 24 hours. but the threat of something like what happened in the bahamas is not there. >> dana: thank goodness for that, for your community. thank you for coming on the show and telling us. h...

Directing me is theed director for operations for women supporting women ministries in nassau. we haven't been able to see a lot of pictures. describe what you witnessed for us. >> well, it's a tremendous tragedy that's going on in the bahamas. it's a very sad moment, but one of goodness that will bring unity to the people, one baha s bahamas. we're just asking everyone to pray. we have a lot of devastating moments happening, homes being lost. we have many people that are feared dead at this time. unconfirmed dead. we need help in the bahamas. we need your prayers. we need building supplies, h...

Us, to feed the first responders and the power crews. other all vital after the storm. we want to make sure they're well-fed and happy. >> dana: so you're in charge of public relations and external affairs. what is it like from an internal p.r. standpoint for all the employees of waffle house that also might be victims of these storms, what is it like for everybody to feel like they're a part of the team working together trying to help everybody else? >> really that family atmosphere. we want to help our teammates out. we were in florida, georgia and the carolinas. we have a lot of folks that ...

We know how bad a storm can be. so people listening to us, i want to commend our community for doing the right thing, for getting ready and for our emergency managers for doing an incredible job. what was happening though was as time went by and the storm slowed down, people were getting more adventurous. yesterday i saw some people out in the ocean in the middle of pretty bad storms. body surfing. it's just dangerous. i think there was a desire to go and see what was going on. they were getting cabin fever and wanted to see what was going on. about less than an hour ago we just had an update....