evacuation orders. paul womble is the emergency management director for polk county, florida. sir, thank you for joining us to tell us what you're doing on your end there. how are you preparing? >> thank you, brianna. we've had our team meeting with eoc here, bringing in all of our stakeholders, plan out our sheltering strategy, our emergency services strategy for responding to either a wind event or rain event or what looks like it could be both for us. we've convened our board of downy commissioners this morning and they declared a local state of emergency here in polk county. we've talked about some government closures. some school closure information is just coming out to support our shelter k ing operations. we've got our plans in place, we're watching the track of the storm waiting on confidence in that forecast from the hurricane center to increase and get to a point when we know we're ready to go, the team is ready.