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Dangerous and its really the lack of visibility. We can barely see 100 yards in either direction and obviously with the winds blowing at this speed if there is debris flying through the air i dont want to be out in the middle of that and get caught up side the head by some Flying Branch or anything like that reporter hold on one second, ed. Stay where you are. Stay where you are right now because some of these big trees are surrounding this hotel. I dont know if theyre going to make it. Theyre starting to creep out. Look, the palm tree is an extraordinary piece of vegetation. Theres no questio...

Chad do you hear me. >> yes, the water's coming. the water isn't coming like a tsunami. >> reporter: you think the water is going to come to where we are? >> i do. especially when the wind blows it that way as well. not only is there a swell under the storm itself but there's going to be wind to project it to move it your way and it will propel all the way up that street if that is a straight shot to the ocean because that's the direction the wind is going to be coming from. >> reporter: so, chuck, chad says if we're about five feet that that storm surge that sucked the water out of the bay do...

Out. there's curiosity, obviously. you have a lot of local here's and store owners who we were talking to before the storm. they were worried, chad. people worry about their businesses. they worry about their livelihood and there is a temptation to want to get out as soon as possible. there's also a ton of media and you hope the people you see out early are just media. but you do feel that it can come to where we are, huh? >> no question about it. let's just project this a little bit forward to others in the path. what we showed on television just 30 minutes ago is already and still happening ...

Your perspective and your take on it so far that you're getting why the governor was so conscientious about saying we're talking about weeks here, talking about commitment from the federal government for weeks and months and in the billions in terms of what they estimated going into this. do you think they're going to wind up being justified in what they thought going into it? >> without a doubt. without a doubt. this storm had the punch when it was over cuba at 160 miles per hour and to the people of northern cuba we are internally grateful what happened to your country is a shame. it was the...

Eye. you may be able to look up and see the sky with not a cloud in it and then be waiting for another hour or hour and 20 minutes and get the wind from the other direction and that's many times where a lot of the damage comes from because the trees have already bent one way and then all of a sudden they have to bend the other way as well as arizona well. this is as bad as this storm has been, truly, in america. this is what the people of sugarland, this is what the people of cudjoe key, this is what the people of pig pibig pis morning, this is what they felt, as this storm went straight over ...