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>> thank you for having me. >> i really appreciate it. so this hit just before midnight. i can see behind you just some of what the storm has left behind. what are you seeing as the light of day has come and the light of day, what are you seeing now in your city? >> there's a lot of destruction. we were even seeing it even with no lights and power lines down. you could still see the destruction last night, even. and a lot of trees down, power lines, roofs blown off buildings. windows out. cars on their side, cars moved around. things upside down. walls out. so things like that. just a lot of d...

Happened, in 1956 they rented out to various entrepreneurs. there was a shoe warehouse, there was trucking companies, guys who were restoring cars. >> anthony: so how long has it been like this, though? >> al: most of this damage happened within five years. >> anthony: within the last 5 years? >> al: yeah. >> anthony: wow. >> al: china had this olympia effort, and scrap metal went to a high price, so people come in here scrapping. they took the windows out, they just destroyed everything. >> anthony: the place is pretty much open to anybody who wants to come in here. >> al: sure. there's a lot...

House. the engineer said, i thought you wanted a hurricane house. we took it off. i wanted mo eed an overhang. we took it off. the eves and everything we could do that way we did, trying to make it a survival. we took windows out. instead there is concrete there. we did put the gulf view in, but the rest of it not so much. >> we put in hurricane windows by custom windows systems and those are rated for 140 wind, four pound projectiles. they did their job. >> how much more did it cost? >> the president of that company will be here tomorrow? >> how much more did it cost than if you had done it o...

Atlantic beach area? >> we have a lot of older beach houses and a lot of newer ones. i just -- i just don't know. i don't know how to call it. i was 3 years old when hazel came. it hit at a category four. you know, that had happened with this hurricane and it would have been completely devastating like hazel. the fact it came in as a two, you know, i'm feeling better about it. i really don't expect buildings to be completely torn down like hazel did. i think some roofs and windows out. things like that. that's what i am hoping for. >> well, miss bynum, we will see. we wish the best to you and ...

It's larger than hazelle was when it hit in '54. those are the two benchmark storms for the carolinas. so just because you've seen a little bit of weakening in the winds doesn't mean those wind fields aren't growing larger and going to affect a larger land mass. this is still a serious storm, a dangerous threat as we go into the next couple of days. >> all right. i have sam champion here. what do you have for brett adaire? >> so, brett, i think you made a huge point for these people because there is only one time that i have ever been forced out of a shelter, and that was a category 1 storm, b...