ron, give us a sense of what's happening there. >> reporter: hey there, chris. well, we decided to get out here on the road just to see what we could see out here before this becomes impossible to do. this is the main north/south drag along the coast here in daytona beach, atlantic avenue. let me take you outside here. show you what we're seeing. this is a scene that officials want to see all night long, which is very little to no traffic out here. we have seen a couple cars go by us before we got on the air with you, chris. you see some flashing lights up there. there's a police officer sitting there in the middle of the intersection and is stopping cars making sure that people know where they're going and not just wandering around. because that is going to be a problem here in a couple, three hours when this business end of this storm bears down over daytona beach. we are anticipating getting quite a bit of storm surge here. could top ten feet. we'll see. if it does, that may threaten this roadway here. one thing that i thought was interesting, chris, is that a lot of these businesses, they're geared toward the tourism