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Easier to come into the area once the storm passed. but i think it's important for people to understand this storm was not just a wind event, it brought storm surge anywhere from 4 feet to 16 feet of just storm surge through our area x. so structures in south florida are actually constructed now to deal with heavy winds, but the flooding is one of the things that the flash flooding is the hipping that you just really -- thing that you just really can't wrap your arms around until it happens. maria: wow. thank you for your leadership, the governor as well. unfortunately, the vice president was ...

Easier to come into the area once the storm passed. but i think it's important for people to understand this storm was not just a wind event, it brought storm surge anywhere from 4 feet to 16 feet of just storm surge through our area x. so structures in south florida are actually constructed now to deal with heavy winds, but the flooding is one of the things that the flash flooding is the hipping that you just really -- thing that you just really can't wrap your arms around until it happens. maria: wow. thank you for your leadership, the governor as well. unfortunately, the vice president was ...

Go with me. this is from. i did this in the commercial break. just so you can see how much rain is coming down here. in the commercial break, these are rain pants. and still, at some point, the rain gear doesn't really matter. because the rain is coming down. i don't want to show you just how much that is. imagine, you know, just from standing here out of the commercial break, imagine how much rain is pulling all over the area. but as quick few gates said, this is going to be an event, mainly of water. right, and of rain. and also a wind event. when you tie the two together, especially when it...

So i think for some people, the worst is yet to come. but i think in totality, yeah, we have seen the greatest damage we were going to see. a category four storm, 155 miles an hour, almost a category five. and some of these hurricanes are wind events and some of them water events and some are really both. if you are in fort myers or those areas, this was a big wind hurricane. if you are here in naples where we had record setting flooding and storm surge, we see more of a flooding event, a storm surge, a water event, then it was a wind event. but to your point about 2 million people being out o...

Patterson is up the coast and st. petersburg. he's up joining me now. steve, how is it looking now? >> you know, you could say that this area with all the modeling, of course, i have a storm here as of yesterday, 24 hours ago, this is where the brunt of the storm was supposed to land. that didn't happen. that doesn't mean that this, that this area couldn't face it is a faster. we are feeling it right now, the wind in the rain significantly picking up as the sun drops. we expect more to come. a surge is still possible. you can't see it now, but tampa bay is basically just over my right shoulder...