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>> i was in holiday, florida, last week. and residents were getting prepared because they saw the dangerous storm. they thought it would make a direct impact on coastal florida. by wednesday and thursday, there were news reports that some stores had run out of water because there was a rush to gather supplies. last week, people were taking this seriously because itwas making a direct impact, going through central florida. as soon as the track changed, though, i think people started to let their guard down. what officials are dealing with, is fatigue. for days and days, residents have been exp...

Flood protection, and all of the equipment to be able to recover quickly from a storm event. >> i understand you are boarding up in a different way from what you learned from irma. can you show our audience? >> normally this building would take about eight hours to board up. we were able to find some efficiencies by installing these hurricane clips which essentially keep the boards in place. these have been graded and approved products so the time frame would be in about two hours this building will be done. >> you don't have to actually drill the entire board. you can just use these clips. le...

Because of unusually high amounts of rain and snow over the winter and spring, so the river has been at flood stage and they are confident the gates and levees will hold. >> when you look at a storm event, we've seen even on this one, things change and they change rapidly and that's why we always stress this is what we are seeing now but conditions can change the residents need to stay alert and keep aware of what is going to happen and what's projected to happen. rain shouldn't be a huge impact on the elevation of the river itself, but rain and is a factor in the interior of the city. >> some...

The main concern is the trees that are likely to come down. my city is covered in almost 50% tree cover. that is pretty impressive for an urbanized area like ours. but what that means during a storm event like this is that those trees are come down to homes and vehicles and power lines of course. >> welcome back to "a.m. joy." on wednesday in florida, a catastrophic category will hurricane made landfall. roaring through the panhandle with wind gusts as high as 155 miles an hour. downing trees and power lines. and killing at least five people in florida alone. traditionally in florida where hur...

100,000 customers that are out. our total customer base is about 120,000, and so we've been significantly impacted by this storm event. we did pre-stage over 100 linemen in our community prior to this storm's impact. those folks will be getting to work as early as 6:00 a.m. in the morning. they've already been out g surveying, getting an assessment of what they're working into tomorrow morning, making sure they have supplies. we did have a portion of our sewer system fail but we were able to get it back on so not too much of an incident there. but we've got a grid system to put back together t...