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And we don't know what downed power lines and as far as water and anything else. so it's, yeah, it's the challenging part. >> back up to when you were getting the eye wall earlier tonight. at its height, how bad was the storm there, and what were your folks telling you about the height of the storm surge, which was our big worry all day? >> well, the -- we have not gotten the storm surge yet. that will be tomorrow morning. we are still getting tropical hurricane force winds until 6:00 a.m. so we've had some gusts up to 100, 105. and sustained winds, you know, throughout the day. but we're not ...

They saw the way that the storm shifted and the track shifted and they said they have to get out of their homes. >> were you planning to evacuate? was this a last minute decision? >> it was a last minute decision. i'm in zone b. when the evacuation -- i was on the edge of the mandatory evacuation. and i decided to come anyway. >> i have been here 30 years. and i have ridden out other hurricanes. so yes. when they increase the boundary for the mandatory evacuation, then we had to leave. >> reporter: this was all especially tough for the elderly and disabled. some sat down while others held thei...

Moved to florida from seattle two months ago. do you feel like you waited too long to decide? >> totally. i wanted to leave on monday. if it's the biggest hurricane ever, just leave. then you're not stuck. >> reporter: the line goes on and on and on. really, as far as the eye can see. some of these people have been waiting in this line for four, five, six hours. it first opened at 10:00 a.m. this morning, and many of them told me that the reason they came here was they saw the way that that storm shifted and that track shifted and said they've got to get out of their homes. were you plank to e...

Joining us is mike tobin. how is it going? >> it's amazing how calm it has been in tampa throughout the night. we just started to get a little bit of restaurant last hour or so and every once in a while we'll get a few gusts of wind. but the streets are largely empty because most of people heeded the warnings and they have gone further upstate. but you still have people, you can probably see some of them out in the bars making a big night of it. and having a hoot. granted we are in a place that is not a mandatory evacuation area. further down is zone a and zone b. that's where you have a manda...

You're going to be. look at the radar summary. this is the future radar. by 10:00 tomorrow morning the eyewall over key wst. and by later on in the afternoon, the eyewall right over you with wind speeds in excess of 130 miles per hour and that storm surge being deadly, water kills more than the wind kills in a hurricane. need to be out of that water away from the water. chris cuomo has been talk about it all day, how it's been coming up in miami because the water in the air just pouring onshore here. well, tomorrow the water will be pouring into southwestern flori florida. >> we're trying to s...