alex? >> thank you so much for that. let's go to mobile, alabama, from kristen dahlgren is standing by for us. kristen, good afternoon to you. it looks a little windy, i can tell from your shirt. >> reporter: yeah, just a little bit, nothing compared to what we will be seeing. really there are two big questions as we go into this afternoon and evening, and that is whether or not people heeded the warnings. they may have hurricane fatigue. there's some worry among officials that they may have that. and then the other question is if they have been sort of lulled into thinking this isn't going to be that big a deal because we are talking about a category 1, potentially category 2 storm when we have this season seen cat 4s and cat 5s. so officials really worry that people aren't maybe taking the preparations. that said, the officials are taking their preparations. you can see the bankhead tunnel already closed. they have it sandbagged on the other side. they actually have a flood gate