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I don't know if that actually worked, but just the roar, the roar of this wind, as it plows through, as it blows through, and the force of it against the railings like that and you can see the trees blowing out over there as well. i'll step a little bit out here again so you can see me with that metal railing continuing to bend there. but the storm did make landfall as jennifer gray said a little bit east of where i am near mexico beach. that means the storm surge will be even east of that, that's a vulnerable area, a low-lying area. the storm surge there we may not know for some time how bad ...

Were speaking to, they think about half the residents are still here, they think about only 4,000 people have gone to shelters in this part of the state. so not many people are in these public shelters. >> no and, look, some of the shelters did fill up all the way, they opened new shelters, those didn't. a lot of people, we have talked about this, i know that jennifer said people knew sththis was go to be a strong storm. for the minds of the people who have been through this, category 2, i can do that. category 4 is a different monster, at governor scott said. people woke up this morning and i...

The shelter. john, it broke my heart reading just the facebook page of the bay county sheriff's office saying, i didn't think it was going to get this bad, my home's only two stories, we're just at sea level, i don't know what to do now, can you come help me, do i have to go somewhere? and to see, just stay where you are, shelter in place, emergency vehicles cannot go through this type of weather. >> sustained, i would say easily over 100 miles an hour with gusts definitely north of that, about a mile that way is the coast. is the beach itself. that is where the storm surge is, that's where pe...

Storm. 150-plus-miles-an-hour. i think people don't realize, the storm surge, whether it's 15 feet or 14 feet, it's all deadly. i'm concerned people are not taking that into consideration. we can't respond, we can't help anybody who chose not to evacuate. they have to hunker down and take care of themselves. but we have over 1,000 people ready in rescue teams. we have the national guard and i just got a briefing from the coast guard, from one mobile and one from the clearwater area to help with water rescue. we have 19,000 people that are already prepositioned to get the power back on, but i a...

Other side of this berm is the gulf of mexico and just in the last half hour, we have started to see some of these white caps and waves picking up which is the harbinger of what's to come. the storm surge is 3 feet in dwes tin, we're told 4 to 8, the rain has been coming down consistently for three to four hours, but periodically you're seeing the water hitting the top of this dock. just to give you some perspective of what we're seeing close to the ocean here in destin. this is on the outer western edge, so a lot of people i talked to earlier today were saying they feel safe, a lot of people ...