Hurricane helene continues right now our viewers in the united states and All Around The World for our special coverage of Hurricane Helene. Im michael holmes. Thanks for being with us tonight. Now, Hurricane Helene is the strongest storm ever to make landfall. Full in floridas Big Bend, sweeping across those less than two hours ago as an extremely dangerous category four with winds of 140 miles an hour. The national Weather Service describing it as unsurvivable up to 20 feet of Storm Surge expected in some areas. There have been at least two deaths reported in georgia and one in florida we have had a report of a fatality on the roadway. Car driving on i94 near Ybor City in tampa was hit when a sign fell onto onto the highway. So that just shows you that its very dangerous conditions out there. We are going to see downed Power Lines. Those are very hazardous as well, please do not mess with any down Power Lines in and around your home or anywhere. You may come in contact with them now. The storm has knocked out power to more than 1 Million homes and businesses in florida, rescues to around the way and officials in one county told people who didnt evacuate to write their Name And Birth date on their Arm Or Leg to be identified if needed later. Severe flooding has reported up and down floridas west coast, far away from where the storm made landfall beyond florida, georgia, tennessee, and the carolinas. Now, bracing for helenes impact, the Deputy Director of the national Hurricane Center says, this will likely be a historic Inland Flooding Ben and warned that a lot of people might not make it through the night people have got to be ready to Take Care of themselves, Take Care of themselves for several days without power. Somehow we got to get people to realize that these arent just to interesting phenomenon, theyre very, very deadly, especially with this setup that we talked about with his preexisting rainfall. Were probably going to lose a lot of lives in this setup with this much flooding potential Chad Myers joins us now to bring us the very latest, wheres the lane . Where is she headed . What are you saying . Its valdosta, georgia. And what is special about valdosta . It is at right on the middle of an interstate, a northsouth interstate where truckers roads are veers, all dry up and down northsouth from Florida All The Way up to michigan. I hope No One is on the roadway right now because the winds are still 110 miles per hour, 17180 kilometers per hour right now, down to a category two michael from where it was, which was a category four. And we are still seeing those gusts now somewhere around 90 to 100 miles per hour around perry, we still have tornado watches in effect, which means a tornado could form overnight if you live in any of these red areas, make sure you have your phone on, that. It will alarm you whether theres a tornado in eurozone. Now, these are not big tornadoes, these are not these things you see on movies, but theres still enough if youd hit your house, it would do some damage. Here is the rainfall that you talked about, how much rainfall is coming down here with this rain this is a front that kind of stopped in the Appalachian Mountains right here over the last couple of days and it rained a little bit. But now, now this moisture from the hurricane is just feeding into that front and it is raining it is just not going to stop. We are going to see likely 200 millimeters, eight inches of rainfall in some spots that is going to be a big deal on top of ground that it has been raining on for 48 hours already. So every Little Red spot you see here, theres Flash Flood Warnings are going on heres the saltwater flood. My goal. Heres what were really concerned about, because the Water Levels are still going up even though the storm is in georgia, the winds are out of the west blowing this water onto this, call it shore. I want to call it land the good news if theres any good news about where this landed, is that its a national seashore area, not really a populated area, not like tampa or miami. It landed in where we see trees, shrubs, bushes, animals, plants. So if Theres Anything good about this, thats it. But if youre caught in a 20 foot six Meter Salt but water flood, its going to be a long night all right. Chad, thanks so much. Well check in later. Chad myers there with the very latest on helene. Now, before helene made landfall Tallahassees Mayor told cnn, this could be the most powerful storm ever to hit floridas capital. He said his mind im concerned Power Outages, structural damage. And of course down trees. Cnns Ivan Rodriguez is live in tallahassee, florida year youve been out there for hours now, what what is the situation there now . What have you been saying . Well, michael, it really feels like in the last 30 minutes, maybe even less than that. Weve started feeling a lot stronger rain and wind. And thats interesting because weve now really arent close to that. All we know that eyewall was east of where tallahassee is, especially where we are here in downtown tallahassee, but maybe that back those back bands, Outer Bands coming back again, giving us a little bit more of that heavy rain fall, a little bit stronger winds here where i am here elevated a bit of a hilltop area, get a great Backer Background of the city here, of tallahassee still see some areas for years with power that are on here where i am just on this Street Couple of minutes ago, these Street Lights went all out a couple of minutes later, we saw them come back gone, but its sort of been like that throughout the evening now, its been a lot calmer earlier now its getting a little bit stronger. And you mentioned that the mayor mentioned that as well. The big threat that they were facing also was the when and how strong that was going to be if we were going to see trees toppled over Power Lines down and then the whole mess that it was going to make to then try and get Power Restoration back on because we know they cant start doing that until they clear all of these roadways. And then those crews are able to safely start that Power Restoration process . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. More than 1 Million people without power in florida alone, there have been deaths reported. I know theres not Storm Surge where you are, but there are increasing reports of that being an impact as well. Yeah, im more than 1 Million customers without power in the state of florida and he when we go down into Leon County, where we are here in tallahassee, theres about 130,000 customers without power, which doesnt seem like a lot michael. But when you put it into perspective in this county, theres only about 300,000 people who live here. So youre almost looking at half of the population here in the county without power. Its going to be a big emphasis going into tomorrow. Now you mentioned debts. We heard from governor ron desantis, who confirmed one death in the Tampa Area from a person who was driving a car on interstate four. He says after a sign fell on that car for killing the driver, we also are learning of two deaths in georgia, also related to Hurricane Helene. But because of a tornado and that happened about 75 miles south of macon, georgia, which is now in that trajectory of Hurricane Helene alright. Ivan rodriguez in tallahassee, florida. Appreciate the reporting there, ivan. Thanks and joining me now is Vincent Long, the administrator of Leon County in florida . He oversees part of the socalled Panhandle Region that includes the state capital, tallahassee, and seeing some major universities as well. Thanks for taking time out. By crazy busy night. You i was reading before i came on air and local town of Tallahassee Newspaper which wrote that helene is, is quote, a storm Whos Fury has never been seen in this area whats it like where you are now . How the last few hours being well, thanks for having me, michael. Yeah. We would certainly grip a lot of experience with with storms here since 2016, we have had we felt the impact of five hurricanes here in our community. Helene would be number six and is number six as you reported, just within a couple of hours, helene made landfall here just about 30 miles east of us as a cat four. So certainly that is never happened here before and were riding it out. Now, that its that its nighttime and the winds are expected its good to continue for the next couple of hours and we truly wont know the extent of the damages in our community until first light when we have an opportunity to do our damage assessments. And to respond to the needs of our community and to begin the work, the hard work of getting our community back together. But we know that even when the winds do begin to die down, that were not Out Of The Woods where we ask our citizens to be as vigilant as ever in especially when navigating around the community with downed trees and downed Power Lines, as you mentioned and certainly again, we asked them to exercise extreme caution in those cases. Its going to take some time to get our community back up and shape, but i can assure them that the County Government is going to be working with the city, working with the state, working with our local partners to get the community back up as quickly and as safely as possible. Yeah. As you said, you no stranger to big storms . What do you expect to see when The Sun comes up . What do you fear . You might say how bad could it be well we expect to see what we have been saying now for a few days to our community and advising our citizens that we expect thousands of trees down, we expect hundreds of roads to be blocked and we expect prolonged Power Outages and again, so those are those are real issues that were going to face. It takes a enormous manpower to clear roads and to get Power Lines restored and so again, we just asked the community to have patients with us. We know that we will be responding to emergencies. We may very well be responding to critical infrastructure failures and so getting back to the conveniences that we all enjoyed pre storm, its going want to take some time, but well get to get there as a community and really we look forward to having that happen just as soon as we possibly can and importantly to as just as soon as we can begin to help our neighbors too, are east and even to our north. As youve been reporting, yeah. Yeah you mentioned power and things like that. Florida now up to more than 1 Million customers without power youre a seasoned administrator. Ive been dealing with the hurricane itself is one thing. How will prepared is the steak to deal with the aftermath that that damage done and the recovery well, i cant say enough about the coordination that we have enjoyed with our state. While under the leadership of our governor. And with our municipal Utility Provider the resources that they have brought to the community are extensive, not not everybody realizes that those contracts are in place. Those mutual aid agreements are in place all year long. And so when a disaster strikes those resources can be made available very quickly. The work still takes time, but those those, those contracts are in place again so that we can effectuate that just as soon as, as soon as It Safe to do so. Yeah. Yeah. I think its pretty well organized. I mean, i when it comes to the people and the people of most important things in these situations, do you think people took the warnings seriously enough early enough . Well, i think weve got some indications here that they that they certainly have. We have about 1,600 people shelter tonight and about well, in 09 shelters that we opened throughout the community and so weve weve heard that weve we know that we had a large number of people evacuated from the community who perhaps felt like the homes that they were living and whether it was a manufactured home or mobile homes, whether they were not safe enough to withstand a storm like this so again, weve received a lot of good feedback. We havent received the number of emergency calls that perhaps might have otherwise, if people didnt do. As we advise them to do and as, as theyre prepared to do, which is to effectuate those those family plans early and we certainly hope they did so and again, will truly understand the impact to our community and what the needs of our citizens are at first light as i a busy night for you, but youre a seasoned administrator all the best and good luck with that Vincent Long in tallahassee, florida. Appreciate you making the time all right well in. Steinhatchee, florida, Joules Call is hunkering down with her husband three kids, and their pets, and shes done this before while pregnant joules college, joining me now jewels you were On Cnn earlier. I watched that interview was a few hours ago. One of conditions been like in the last few hours since then now to be honest, as far as the wind and the rain goes, its pretty wild died off with can get some pretty heavy guests right now, the major concern is that we are definitely having flooding. This town is seeing more flooding than its ever seen. Its about halfway up the pillars on our House And Weve heard reports around town of people needing rescue that theyre in chest height water. Some of our friends so its not its not looking so good here. Yeah. You were moment, but not everybody is. Yeah. Yeah. You you were a Storm Chaser. You and your husband . I think youve experienced that tornadoes when you lived in kansas, you gone through several hurricanes since moving to florida compare what youve seen in the past with this and what youre going through is undoubtedly the worst ive seen either tornadoes or hurricane just the sheer amount of water that is pouring into this town its unlike anything weve ever seen, anything. Even we had Record Flood i think like 56 years ago. And its well past that. Well i think even past storm of the century back in 93 but its the worst ive seen yeah. Way you are steen hatchie. It is a flood floodplain. It is susceptible to flooding did you think about leaving do you do you now wish that you had rather than dont i still feel like having known, you know, my my elevation in my house i still feel like were probably safe for a lot of people, especially like i was saying On Cnn earlier tonight, not knowing if further inland houses are built to withstand kinds of wind that they are around the coast. As far as that goes, i think were a lot safer than that. Its just the water that coming in but i dont think that its going to reach inside our house. Its already just slowed down a little bit. And of course, the hurricanes almost passed as at that point. Yeah. Yeah. And i dont want to point out to you and also our view as it is now a category two hurricane officially now that it is crossed onto land its still significant and dangerous, just theyre link people know that you wrote out hurricane idalias while you were 34 weeks pregnant last year. And now that Baby Kai is with you for another one house he and the kids doing what what are they doing . That was doing pretty good right now theyre all just kind of hunkered down and weve got them in the closet. So there an interior room, just like you would with the Tornado Theyll Kind of sitting here with daddy plan, plan around and he got a little bit asleep, but its definitely not sleeping super well tonight just quickly, if i may, when i saw you on a few hours ago, you were a lot more chill that you sound now, you more worried than you were a few hours ago . Im not as worried as i am part sick especially on that ive Got Friends out there that are that are currently underwater and needing help its just its hard to read comments from people saying, hey, on water, plan on on helping her neighbors because were spent her house sdk you read that kind of thing and theres nothing you can do its just heartbreaking. Yeah. First school nurse. Are you worried . Its kind of rise higher when it comes house . No not so much weve still got id say three or four more seeks the before its actually into our house. Its more my concern of her over the very lower than us. Yeah. Yeah. Close knit community. I know Jewels Colin in steen steinhatchee, florida appreciate it. Good luck and well hopefully talk to you when The Suns up and things are looking a bit better right. Sounds good. Thank you all right. Well, please stay with us. Our Breaking News Coverage of the monster hurricane. Helene continues right after the break well also have a report from asheville, North Carolina where residents are fleeing their homes in expectation of what could be historic flooding in the area. Youre watching cnn newsroom, well be right back. 20 seconds a week to lose 20 of your weight in a year with Diet And Exercise thats the power of glpones through Row Connect with the Provider Today at row. 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Currently a category two storm now, elaine will maintain Hurricane Strength as it pushed shes into Southern Georgia before gradually weakening at least 60 Million people under some type of Watch Or Warning related to the storm in at least 12 states, it is a massive storm and residents in asheville, North Carolina are being urged to evacuate ahead of what is expected to be historic It Flooding in the Area Video over there it is there showing a torrent of water rushing down the Swannanoa River on thursday, the ground around asheville is already soaked after more than ten inches, 250 millimeters of rain from a previous storm that has officials worried about lands slides, and buildings collapsing due to compromise foundations. Another video shows rainwater rapidly flooding down from mountains in hyland, North Carolina on thursday ahead of Hurricane Helene, Wlox ReporterNijar Petty Home has more this situation here and fletcher is dire. I mean, as you can see right behind me, the flooding. How do so high that it is probably higher . Part of visibility of the party is extremely limited. Now, the national Weather Service is projecting catastrophic historic flooding in our area including front broad, is why no river. And now the next 48 hours is crucial. Now officials are urging that if you live in low lying areas is crucial that you evacuated. And just because you dont live, a lot of prague brought, it doesnt mean you wont feel the impact of the laid out local authorities are working diligently to evacuating residents and provide shelter for those in need. Now, fishing so if you feel the need to stay in your home, they cannot stress this enough on the importance of gathering. 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At least three deaths reported across Georgia And Florida so far, millions of people still remain in the storms path. Now, look at this nasa capturing The View from space. Just have a look at that and lean one of the largest hurricanes to pass through the Gulf Of Mexico in the modern era even eclipsing Hurricane Katrina is Wind Field lets bring in Chad Myers, our meteorologist again, because it its the size of this thing isnt a chad. I mean, its category two, but its still got a lot of Steam Left and watching the map behind you, its huge. It is huge. And even if you only have, lets say, 100 kilometer per Hour Wind and you look at that to 200 kilometers across. Thats a lot of people that are being affected you know, it may not be 200 kph, but it is still a very large event for so very many people. So, yes, now is losing some intensity. It was 140 miles per hour. Now its 120. Were seeing some gusts around 99, the highest per that ive seen so far, so 160 kilometers per hour. But there will be some minor little tornado plus today, every little storm that comes on shore here could produce a tornado. In fact, to Tornado Warnings going on right now that far from charleston just kind of moving on upstate. So the wind at the surface, 99, the wind aloft. We had a wind aloft of 160 miles per hour from the airplane im not sure how you get the courage to fly an airplane threw 160 mile per hour hurricane, but they do it all the time. Heres a surge now approaching ten feet in many spots and the wind is still blowing it right on shore. So this water is going to continue to go up. So that lady that you just talked to Mike A Little Bit ago, shes going to see that water come up. She said shes got through good more steps. She may need those three more steps because that water is still coming up. And then the rainfall. This is the Fresh Water because the Salt Flood were talking about that surge thats all salt. This is freshwater. Weve now seen in some spots, ten inches, 250 millimeters of rain, and possibly another to 50 to go could you imagine any mountainous area, at least a hilly area, a half a meter of rain in just four days. Thats not going to end well for some people, there you go. Heres still the severe weather over the next couple of days. Its still going to be possible not over, but close. Yeah and handing out why now before i let you go to one of the things that because were talking about asheville and we had a lot of rain here a day or so ago. Theyve had ten inches how does that play into the effects of this storm when it comes to a soaked ground while theres a name for it is called the pre. The pre that Predecessor Rain Event that is a Rain Event that is north of a northward moving hurricane that is kind of taking some of the moisture from the hurricane pushing it into a frontal system that was already there. And then squeezing that moisture out. If you have saturated ground, and then you take a wind and make it yeah. I dont know, 100 kilometers per hour. And youre to knock those trees or because those trees are just in mud and then you put another ten inches of rain on top of that you have more problems . Yeah. Theyre waiting. Chad always great to have you on the forest. She was earlier in the day. Yeah. Once you get a new shift, its what we do we are the overnight good to see you. Thank you. All right. Now, as weve been reporting the western coast of florida getting the worst of the hurricane lose albert is the mayor of sarasota, Florida Thanks so much for making the time youve had a busy night to the storm, that moving on from where you are, but give us a sense ill what your area has gone through still looking very bad. Actually, i its too dark for me to see whether the surge from the Gulf Of Mexico has started receding at all. But this is the worst probably weve seen in our area and 100 years, i know. Ive been in sarasota for 22 years and ive never seen anything like that im getting reports of our Barrier Islands agree three to four feet of Water Havent though, more look really, really bad. Lot of people ive got to have lost their homes, their cars, just everything yeah. I you know, you afraid of what . Daylight will bring absolutely. Absolutely. As i just theres just been nothing like this here and with our Barrier Islands being completely underwater, its not going to be good how fragile are those Barrier Islands give people a sense of what theyre like and how exposed well, theyre very low of them really are not that big. You know, theyre not very far across and so and very flat and so a lot of it is sand. So its easy for things to wash or what we probably have had a lot of our beaches wash away and who knows how many homes possibly have done the same . Yeah, i covered Hurricane Sandy and remember damage down to similar areas . There what sort of preparations were you able to put into place ahead of time . And do you have any indication on how theyve held up well we started preparing on tuesdays, so just, you know, with extra personnel and getting Everyone Stage so that they would be ready for whatever we faced but once the wind starts getting past a certain mile per hour and once the water starts rising we cant even get to people anymore. So even those preparations dont help with if people dont evacuate like weve asked them to do, i think well, did but some people just decided to stay and ride out the storm because weve been warned many times with hurricanes that there would be a Storm Surge, but never happened this time it happened. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah its risky when people think its not going to happen again and then they get, they get whacked madeline said in sarasota, Florida Thanks so much. Good luck with the hours all right thanks so much lets go back now to Cnns Ivan Rodriguez to get the latest on the situation in tallahassee, florida. I mean, tallahassee, where you i was the bullseye, but it did make Landfall A Little Bit north. Hopefully that made a little bit of difference. But it was the first Cat Cat4 Tatler paesie has ever seen lay out what what whats been going on in the conditions now it definitely made a big difference, just the fact that it was several miles off of being a direct hit. Tallahassee, we were west of that eyewall and you really see a big difference, especially now, michael the parents up 30 minutes ago last time that we spoke the rain is even calmed down substantially. Winds are still coming and going, but in terms of that rain being continuously strong, this is the first break that weve had now in several, several hours one thing we are taking a look at right now, were rescues and pascoe county, which is accounted right above tampa, florida. Were learning that 40 people were rescued from rising waters because of Hurricane Helene. Its Sheriffs Office there says that Rescue Boats are continuing to be loaded into the water. Theyre making sure that anyone whos still needs help is able to get it. Thats the big the biggest news that weve gotten so far. In terms of rescues at a larger scale across the state here in tallahassee, where we are we havent gotten any sort of information on any rescues and needed so far from where i can see and from where im standing. We also havent seen any trees that have been toppled over any Power Lines that have fallen. Power here is really hit or miss as well. Michael. A lot large part of the county here still remains without power. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of i dont know the area myself, but theres a lot of trees there to what one of the fears when it comes to that and the damage they can do, let alone the loss of Ob Trees we heard earlier, even today, from the mayor of tallahassee saying that the biggest threat was going to be that wind and possibly up to 110 miles per hour here in tallahassee, which brings us reroute to read around of a category two, a kind of wind. But if those trees began to topple over which many of them do for regular storms here in tallahassee, it would make a mess. We were expecting thousands of trees, possibly even hundreds of thousands in rhodes down Power Lines and from where im standing, were not seeing that which is great news but Power Restoration is still going to be something that theyre going to be efforting. When The Sun does come up. Like i mentioned here in Leon County, but 100 130,000 customers are without power. The population in this county is only about 300,000. So really putting that into perspective, just how many people are without power across state of florida. Were looking at more than 1 Million customers without power. Floridas youve used to this, right . They they know how to handle it to recover from those hurricanes. But we knew early on that it was going to be a Marathon Recovery for a lot of these communities. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What daylight brings . We do not know Ivan Rodriguez in tallahassee, florida appreciate your reporting through the night. Thanks so much. 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In the key Florida Rescue services have been suspended until the storm passes. Its just too dangerous. One resident describing the situation just ahead of landfall the gulf is rising up to swallow the island. I dont know that Cedar Key, as we know, it will exist in the morning tampa bay, but the massive size and strong winds created a powerful surge in that city. Just look at those images their vehicles driving across the bridge as it is getting pounded by the water more than 1 Million customers without power in florida and across the South East has been riding out the storm at his home in tampa, florida is with us now thanks so much for doing so. You spoke with cnn last hour about the rising waters how quickly did it all happen . What was it like watching it rise like that and has it come up further yeah. I mean, within two hours, i had four feet of water in the house. Im a lifelong Born Floridian and i survived Hurricane Andrew in 1992, down in south florida. So i dont get to apprehensive when they announced the storm. We didnt even think this one was going to be that big, but holy cow, that Storm Surge. The whole lower level of my home is still with water. I ended up hopping on to one of my little kayaks to float around in my living room. I went live on tiktok and now here we are talking to you guys. Yeah. Yeah. That now thank you also said that that was that was a potential you said that was a potential means of escape. Hes its still there. Do you think youre going to have to use it at some point to get out. What whats the situation . Yeah its still down there. We lost power about an hourandahalf ago. I was able to shower and get some of that nasty water off matthew. Hello. Or is he hes lost power. Hes talking to his by flashlight i you there matthew audio. I mean, you can just imagine what the situation is like no power. Hes got the kayak in the living room. He says that he might have to use it to get out, but seems to be in good spirits, remarkably, that water rose very quickly. He was saying hes been through storms before, but nothing like this in terms of the water rise matthew, you back here, me. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I was i was just saying to people because the audio went in and out. Im not surprised. You dont have power. Youre in the middle of the storm the storm whos arent uncommon way you are. How does this one compare with what youve seen before we didnt think this one was going to be strong at all. So we kind of took it, took the warnings for granted we knew we have the second level of our house here and that were up high and dry but this has been just a heck of a Storm Surge. Its wiped out all my neighbors first, i see just the destruction going on down the road. One of my best friends, shane, his house got wiped out so i dont know. I cant wait to see what the morning will bring and i hope everyone makes it through the storm. Okay. Its just been a lot of destruction. Do you think you through the worst of it in terms of the water rising and so on. The tides are going to be rising until 130 Tomorrow Afternoon were about halfway through the tide cycle. The wind is slowing down and thats whats pushing all that water up into the bay and overflowing all the streets and the rivers here. So were just trying stay positive, keeping our fingers crossed and well see well, well, good luck mate. Im telling you that crazy images of the kayak, but not funny if youre going to have to use it to get out of there. Were thinking of you, good luck, keeps smiling. I got a great attitude. I take. I dont think id be smiling like you right now. Ill pick good on you. It is what it is. We have our health thats all its concerned. I dont have insurance or anything, so it is what it is, but we will rebuild typical florida before you got the drywall down downstairs in that video, looked like it was pretty new, isnt it . Yeah. Ive been recovering from hurricane in that happened about a year ago. So ive been going through all the stuff, flip the city of tampa and open permits and everything to fix the electrical. This time we raised all the electrical up higher, but the Storm Surge that we got today, it went even above those outlets. Now so were just going to have a lot of wet insulation and wet drywall. Again but the cleanup process, weve got a lot of practices seems looked pretty well mattered. So, you know what youre doing thanks been watching a lot of Youtube Videos to watch a Youtube Video earlier about how to secure my boat properly, because i dont want that to blow away their love your attitude day. You look like a good guide to have a beer with one day, matthew. Hello, thanks so much cheers. Thinks thats going to lead do god, i love that attitude. Dont you . 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To hell little hard to stand up in the boat. Its Rockin And Rollin so bad but the wind is east off just a little and now the charges come in and im seeing a lot of water how high are you experiencing this water . Can you estimate how high this is . How much further higher above your boat . Well, the boat goes on up. Im looking down at everything now. Im looking down at the world ten foot surge, something like that maybe, more its its a lot of water why oh, im sorry. Go ahead well, i know the towns got to be flooded if its doing that right here and like i say, the winds, we had a couple of hours ago were im sure 100, 100 mile an hour over. Its just incredibly bad when the when this surge, youre on a boat, why did you decide to write the hurricane on that boat well, to keep It Safe and to keep an eye on my property here and try to save as much of my businesses i can its a waterbased business here done my whole life. Ive been a waterman my whole life. And thats what some of us do stay with her boats, protect them its your livelihood. We understand that. And thinking about what things look like, Cedar Key had been hit by a powerful hurricane just last year. And you wrote that one out too. Is that was the worst storm you had encountered. Is this one worse than that . I think so. I dont know. Maybe unsafe that every time, but this was a bad one and is still wet. I mean, it still i dont know what it is. 50, 60 mile an Hour Winds, but not going to like it was but yeah. No, its been a bad storm thanks for spending part of your day with me watching cnn newsroom. Im michael holmes, my Friend And ColleagueKim Brunhuber will have the latest on Hurricane Helene when our special coverage continues after quick break ive been saying publicly people are say under turns out, i have enough money, i could just shut up and back i can carve saturday, october 5 On Cnn. 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