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Rear. i'll be honest with you. >> we always appreciate the honesty james. you live in new orleans seen oboe covering after hurricanes. >> i i've dealt with them all, i know the toilets that work and i know you need immigrants and a lot of them to rebuild and i know the fact of hot water on hurricanes. i promise you. >> we believe you but tell me what you think, florida needs to be doing at this moment in its recovery efforts? >> first of all, they got something more than a photo op. dennis desantis interferes with rescue operations, the first thing you gotta do -- it yet to find the people tha...

Looking down on you now, what do you think he would say? >> i'm proud of you. i prepared for at least a ten-foot storm surge, and i tied the boat up to lots of different pilings. i want to say over 16 dock lines way away from the boat. i did a video for insurance to show everything was being done right. i tied everything down so it wouldn't blow away. and it worked. >> so this is the dock. how far away are we from the marina right now? >> i would say 600 feet from where the boat was initially tied up. and it came of the power lines, because they're all still standing. it had to float over top ...

Shock but also reality kind of starting to set in. i will turn the cam areera overe this is a dock that came off a house with hurricane ian and it really speaks to the force of this storm and how it moved this. we're only about 100 feet or so from the coast here in naples. take note of this dock and where it is. it is in the driveway of this home, but it actually comes from this home over here. behind this home is where this dock used to be. i spoke to the homeowner, and i want you to hear how he explains what happened. >> that's a floating dock which is on the other side of our house, came up...

Higher pilings, just higher period and even to art arteries to these islands, maybe like the one by you here. that they have to be built higher. to you agree with that? -- do you agree with that? is that being considered? i know it's early. >> yeah, that's a very good point. the causeways to access pawley's island are at a certain level. they could be made higher. but the roadways on pawley's island itself are even at a lower elevation than those causeways themselves, and that's a challenge that we have that we're trying to work through. it costs a lot of money, there's a lot of priorities, bu...

So, mexico beach was scraped off the map, okay? just like someone took a shovel to the sidewalk. fort myers beach is very similar. just much bigger. but the devastation is still just incredible. the structures that were built with a new building codes, they survived, okay? the structures that were built, say, from 65 to 85, those were obliterated. if you were made out of wood, you are gone. you are just left with pilings. so, what you will see happen, just like what's happened in mexico beach right now, is the construction code will be increased. and it will just be, you will have to be with t...