>> well, abby, we have been here all day so far and i can certainly tell you that this is the worst expanses we have been out here. the winds are steadily increasing, if the rain is heavy, and it goes in and out. you can tell that there are these outer bands of the hurricane that are starting to arrive here in the area of clearwater beach, where we are. earlier in your program chad myers was talking about parts of the state where people still have time to get out because it hasn't started raining yet. it is definitely raining here. now we are in pinellas county and this is a mandatory evacuation's own, but i spoke to a man earlier who told me that he had no plans to evacuate. he is going to ride out the storm right here in town. part of the reason for that, he told me, is that he lived inland about five miles in this direction. the water is that way, in the pitch darkness, but the concern