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seeing high winds, particularly out in the hamptons on the east end where we've had reports of flooding, torrential rain continues. out on fire island, we've had the atlantic ocean hitting those dunes. their holding right now. and we still have an astronomical high tide that we have to go through later today. so this is a storm that's going to be with us for a while but we're prepared for anything. we have crews deployed throughout the county. we have urban search and rescue teams that are deployed and even one that came as far away as buffalo down here, which i think is a good example of how we come together in times of crisis like this. >> it sure is. let me ask you about evacuation orders, steve. how did that go? to what extent do you think people did take off for higher ground? >> you know, we issued the voluntary evacuation order yesterday. had a lot of discussion with fire island officials.