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Based on your eyewitness account? >> most of the folks i've watched in the city proper because of the voluntary evacuation order. we certainly don't want to see any loss of life or injuries. that doesn't mean the threat is over. this city will be battered by not only strong winds but the copious amount of rainfall that's predicted. >> i take it the window for this mandatory evacuation is rapidly closing, if not closed already. are people still trying to get out of town? >> reporter: yeah, wolf, the city had provided buses. they were taking people north to san antonio to get them out of the reg...

Even though this is a place forie evacuees to escape to doesn't mean this is the if you arey of debating. a foot rain could potentially flood this city. there are a lot of low-lying places. people and authorities known that. they have already prokd of. we're just starting to feel the winds pick up and you talk to. it is sin no, ma' this is synonymous in terms of who is there. they actually have locks on the north and south side of the city

Rise. there are a lot of lessons learned from other storms that are being applied here. the other one is first responders aren't going to get out in this kind of weather. they just simply can't risk it. so if you've got an emergency, for the most part until the winds die down, you're on your own. if it's an absolute emergency, some may attempt it, but the wisdom is you just can't. it's only going to get worse. that we can feel right now. the winds come at you in almost a pulse. and you can sense it f. it's not a consistent blow, it rises and falls, but it's something that's really felt. wolf? ...

Right now? >> reporter: wolf, the way this wind is acting here, if you've ever been caught up in the blast of, say, a jet engine, it's just like that now. you really get handled by a very intensive blast. the way the water ripples and blasts along here, it's clear this storm continues to draw near, and as it does, the winds continue to rise. this area, of course, is used to having to deal with hurricanes and tropical storms, so a lot of the construction has taken that into account. a lot of the homes here have those hurricane shutters, those special metal velour kind of window frames that go u...

The folks will be bracing for the winds. there is no doubt there will be flooding and also lots of power outages as well. we'll get back to you and check in with cnn's ed lavendara. he's in galveston. what are the conditions where you are? >> for a while we had seen these bands of wind and rain coming on shore and things had dodged around in terms of this storm. it's really making its way onto shore here. when you look out onto the water, when we first started here a few hours ago, about 100 yards out is where the water was crashing onto the shoreline. now you can see that storm surge making i...