Dangerous and its really the lack of visibility. We can barely see 100 yards in either direction and obviously with the winds blowing at this speed if there is debris flying through the air i dont want to be out in the middle of that and get caught up side the head by some Flying Branch or anything like that reporter hold on one second, ed. Stay where you are. Stay where you are right now because some of these big trees are surrounding this hotel. I dont know if theyre going to make it. Theyre starting to creep out. Look, the palm tree is an extraordinary piece of vegetation. Theres no question about it. Theyre built to bend. There are a lot of trees that arent that and theyre starting to split and fail under the strain on them and weve been watching it and the concern is that these trees are going to go into the structures across and while they may not look physically impressive to you, were talking about thousands and thousands of pounds and even more of that force if they do fall into those buildings. Some of them have storm shutters, some of them do not. The wind is picked up by a significant, significant factor here from what it was just a little while ago. So weve been watching this to make sure that the way those go is going to make a big difference. Were safe where we are here in terms of what might come on us. It may not look that way, but it is otherwise i wouldnt be here. But these gusts, this is intense what is coming down these corridors right now. And you can see it behind me and chad was right, the pictures tell the story. But where this wind goes and where it takes all this debris, those are the areas that are going to need the most help and so its important to site it as its happening and weve seen trying to stay out of the way, out of the way of these gusts while doing the best that we can to just keep an eye on the situation, so that once it passes, we know where to go. I dont have to tell you, youve been doing the job as such a high level as such a long time. You serve different functions. One is to be the eyes and ears for the audience on the ground in a situation like this to arrest the sense of curiosity. Once the First Responders have to kick in and do their job, very often were telling them where things happened from our own observations. And this is certainly going to size up to one of those situations, because they cant get out right now. Theyve had to hunker down. Ed is down below me. Were a team on this. Hes been watching equal intensity from a different perspective down on the ground and ed, let me know when you can come back to me in terms of what youre seeing with the flooding and whether its making an appreciable difference to these surrounding buildings by us. This is somewhat of a Commercial Area where we are now. There are residences as you get into the four, five, six blocks away where we are, as you get closer into the water, there are residences along the water. We dont give a damn about property in a situation like this. Were about protecting life and thats what all the precautions were about. But youve got mega, mega mansions town there. The governor has one. Were talking 10, 15 million homes and they were built close to the water and as beautiful as that is, its equally as dangerous. Remarkable that this tree is standing. Im watching it split in realtime but its getting there. Ed, what are you seeing down where you are . Let me step out of this. Reporter im going to take a quick little step out oh, man. A quick little step out so you can get a sense of just how quickly the water is moving through here on the street. This is the the most severe gusts its pushing through. You can see the water. We cant even see 50 yards any more to our right. The amount of water thats being pushed along the street and filling up here and we understand one of the higher areas here in Downtown Naples. The water in other parts of the neighborhoods that we were able to survey this morning and throughout the day yesterday have to be an incredibly dangerous situation. The good news we reported over the last days that many of the people here in naples evacuated this area. We didnt see but a handful of people out and about throughout the day yesterday so that is a good sign because what is left behind as you mentioned, its just property and the intensity of it and the flooding in this situation remember, this part of naples is surrounded by water on all sides, so its not just the gulf waters that will be of concern, its going to be the river to the side to the eastside of town here as well as the canals and the homes through there, all of that water getting pushed up. This is just one little spot as you look down here on the street in Downtown Naples, just how quickly the water can pull up in various areas so you can imagine in some of the lower lying areas just how horrible the flooding situation is going to be. We continue to look here off to our our east to make sure were well protected here. Everything structurally from what i can tell seeps to be holding on. I have never experienced the intensity of this kind of hurricane with the winds cutting down visibility the way it has which makes the situation even that much more disconcerting. It is incredibly intense here as we approach and get close to the eye of this storm, making and passing over naples here but it is quickly going to turn from a wind and structural story to this flooding story. Here comes another gust. Whoa. Can you see this, dave . So now were getting it in full effect up here. Ed its not its not slowing down any more, so this has to be what chad was talking about where its just it just keeps coming. Just keep coming. It just looks like it looks like some type of sideways cyclone thats coming down here with these gusts. Ill tell you, ed, me, were not going to move that easily in a storm. Were both bigger guys and this could easily knock you off your feet. Ill tell you what, its such an easier task to be here than so many of the people who are with this storm, with this family, with young kids and theyre inside and they have to be praying to god that this just leaves them untouched and they get past and thats the biggest concern. For us right now were fine. This is very dramatic picture as chad said it and its accurate picture, its true. But your heart has to go out to the families. Youre watching this coverage, if youre not in florida, if you are in florida, God Bless You and we hope that everybodys okay, and youre safe and you have the supplies you need. This will pass. Its going to take longer than usual but it will pass. But if youre watching this from some where else, well see what their needs are afterwards, but this this is something that theyre going to remember for a really long time and hopefully there is a measure i hope of Gross Inaccuracy of the net effect of this storm. I hope that it is more drama than it is impact and that the places that have been touched from the caribbean now up into florida and what happens in states north, west and a little bit east of here winds up being less than we expect. But for now that big that big part has passed. Theres bane a little bit of an alleviation. Its gusting that way now but its not as sustained as it was. There was about five minutes there where it just wasnt letting up and the good news is, this one big patch of trees that ive been watching here that i was really worried about going into the Apartment Building across, it hasnt happened. I know chad myers is about to jump in my ear and say dont count your chickens. I understand, but you take good results where you find them in a situation like this and so far the integrity of these big trees, these 200 foot trees, chad, so far ive been seeing some separation in them, not the palms. You know what im talking about, these other old growth trees, theyve been splitting, but they havent failed yet. They havent collapsed yet and if they can make it through this phase, maybe well get lucky here. But i have to tell you, ed, is a pro as you know and hes been in a lot of these. Ive been in many but less than he to be sure and you to be sure, but there is something unique about what were getting hit with right now. Maybe you can put some words and science to it for us. The only word i have, chris, is eye wall. You are in the northern eye wall. You are going to within the next ten, 15 minutes be inside the eye. You may be able to look up and see the sky with not a cloud in it and then be waiting for another hour or hour and 20 minutes and get the wind from the other direction and thats many times where a lot of the damage comes from because the trees have already bent one way and then all of a sudden they have to bend the other way as well as arizona well. This is as bad as this storm has been, truly, in america. This is what the people of sugarland, this is what the people of cudjoe key, this is what the people of pig pibig pis morning, this is what they felt, as this storm went straight over the lower keys. It stays offshore, it gained a little strength but not much and then it made landfall about 30 minutes ago, the Eye Wall Doing 130 Miles Per Hour when it hit marco and i bet you just had 130. Nothing to boast about but that storm is still very strong. Not losing any intensity, really, whatsoever. Reporter it comes down to duration. Tell me this, when does the Storm Surge Component Kick in and what do we look for there . The storm surge comes in after the center of the eye moves by and the bubble of water moves under the eye itself and pushes on to land. Now this is opposite of what we expect when an eye makes landfall on an east coast, this is a west coast, so the west coast now has the no water on the north and the water slam storm surge on the south side of the eye. Waters been pulled out of tampa bay, pulled out of Port Charlotte and all the luck up to the north and in 20 minutes when the eye goes by you, the eye wall, youre going to get eye and then youre going to get the other side that marco island is already getting. Marco getting the Storm Surge Flooding and we are seeing that Flash Flood Emergency for marco island proper. Ten to 15 foot surge on top of places that were completely dry. Honestly, the ocean bottom was exposed four feet or so, the ocean bottom was exposed. You could see the sand, you could see the fish, you could see the coral and the sponge and now all of a sudden thats going to be covered with ten to 15 feet of water. Chris, i am seeing you, can you hear me and can you go . Reporter oh, no, i have you. I was just testing out these Hurricane Specs that you told me not to waste the money on. You were right. So chad, what do we do when that storm surge comes in . Whats the best way to help what is going to be the list of immediate needs for the people there and, you know, god willing, they can hear us. Were running on Battery Power here. The hotels out, all the lights are out in the surrounding area. In fact, i dont see anything lit up. They had kept the lights on here. I dont see them any more. For people who are there and hopefully Hunkered Down go ahead. What happens here on marco and other islands, city islands that are on up the coast, that would have an awful lot of homes on canals and many of those homes are less than three to five feet above the canal on a regular day, now all of a sudden there will be five or ten feet of water on top of their grass and so therefore in their home. And the surge with the push of the water, push of the wind, think of this water moving at 60 or 70 Miles Per Hour being pushed along by winds that are 120 Miles Per Hour, that water will knock things down a lot quicker than the wind will knock things down. Water has so much more force. Now, to answer your first question, what do you do . You get eddie and that crew off the street because thats where the water is going to go. You likely will be fine, second, third floor, but get everybody off the street. Chris, go ahead if you can hear me. Reporter chad, can you still hear me . Yes, i can. I can see your pictures very well, chris. So just start talking. Reporter i cant hear any more. Led me go to ed if you can if you can hear me, pick up the coverage for me. We just had a huge gust here and it blue out my ife and i dont hear anything so pick it up if you can. Reporter no problem, chris. Were down on the street here in Downtown Naples and to give you the continued since of as this the eye of this hurricane gets closer and closer here to naples, ive tucked in behind a wall here to protect us from the worst of the wind. Its just too much. Theres no visibility. If we can get to look down here on the street, the number of palm trees that are just blowing down the street and thats obviously a major concern for us because with such little visibility, you cant stand out here in this, theres no reason too. You cant see anything flying around. As we stand here a little bit more than an hour, we have endurds these kinds of wind, this kind of rain, were still not quite at the at the eye of the storm here which we anticipate will be coming much, much closer and we will continue to monitor that. So it is a situation that is clearly deteriorating and after more than an hour of enduring this you really start to have to ask yourself, were in Downtown Naples and the situation here in the buildings and the structures that were surrounded by are strong and from anything that i can tell from our vantage point, In These Times of situations, well be honest with everybody, its limited. We do not have the ability right now to venture out into the city by any means and get a sense of how the rest of the structures are withstanding the storm. We can tell you what we see here around us. There is outdoor Concert Venue here and it has a soft tarp over it. Ive been watching that for the last 35 minutes. Im amazed that that has not come peeling apart here with these winds that weve seen. I thought for sure that that would start unbuckling as it is tied down here but what is simply stunning is how little visibility. Were down to maybe 100 yards of visibility here which makes this even more treacherous and as weve approached this and endured this for more than the last hour, really makes you wonder in the rest of the area homes that are not as structurally sound as the areas in the buildings that you see here around me, really makes you wonder, can the homes, can the other buildings around this part of naples and southwest florida, can it continue to withstand this kind of intensity for as long as it has and theres still more to come. Theres no question and a concern that we have here. Reporter all right, ed. Ill take it from you right now. I was i was a little overly optimistic in terms of the worst being through. I was hoping thats what that was before but shes back. And it is a big blow thats coming through here and again as you were seeing down there at ground level chad, this is the real deal coming through here, but so far this tree line is holding and stoz important for these surrounding structures, chad in terms of what they can do to things as you know. We know what happens when these big branches blow off with this kind of Energy Behind them. Weve been seeing it about this way now for about 35 minutes or so. And everywhere around us, its the same. Its actually looks actually worse in areas that are a little bit west of us here. The trees that were there that i was using as markers before are gone, so chad, what are you seeing on the radar in terms of where we are from that most severe band that went over the island not too long ago . You are about four miles from where there is no more rainfall, so therefore the inner part of the eye wall, four miles away. Now if we do the math at 12 Miles Per Hour, youre still in this or maybe something slightly less than this for another 20 minutes, so its that duration thing you talked about, how long are people going to be in this when theyre in their homes in the dark. This is a completely different animal in the day light. When you are in your home and you hear things go bumping and you have no idea, because its dark and you have no power, and you dont have airconditioning and you dont have any communication with any of the outside world because the cell towers already gone down, thats when it truly is going to be a very difficult night for the people from sara sota, into tampa because theyre going to live with this as will with. Maybe less, maybe 115 because, chris, i think you just had 130. Reporter all right. Whatever it is, it is. But heres what i can tell you, chad, as you know were all pros. We are in the cover of a hotel. The crew is good. Photojournalist is good. Im good. Ed and i are built for this. Its not easy but ill tell you what, its a hell of a lot easier for us than it is for people that chad was just talking about. God forbid youre with your family and having to live through Something Like this, our hearts, our thoughts are with those people. Its a big reason why we do this coverage. Well be here just as we saw with harvey. Theres going to be need and we know that this community will come together. We saw it before the storm. It sounds trite but its true. The worst of Mother Nature brings out the best in human nature and thats going to be needed here in florida in big, big portions and living through this part of it makes those of us who god willing wont be adversely effected by it feel interconnected to those who are going to be effected by it because, ed, from where you are down there right now, this is going to be something where everybodys going to have to count their blessings after this one goes through. Where is it where you are right now . How is it down there . Reporter hey, chris, seconds after i tossed back to you just moments ago, heard a large crash about 15 yards off to my side, part of the rooftop, these are the spanish tiles of the rooftop that were on just came crashing down about three stories off the ground, crashed down on the ground around us. This is exactly what landed on the ground around us. As i was mentioning and while we were talking and the fortification and the structural soundness of the buildings that were in that we felt really good about, not to say it wont endure any kind of damage, but if these shingles and these tiles are coming off the roof, here on these really strong buildings, you can imagine what it must be like in the neighborhoods and the areas surrounding closest to where we are and closest to the wall of the eye of this hurricane. So highly dangerous situation as some of these tiles just flying off the roof, crashing down here on the ground next to us and as we mentioned, were protected and tucked away an area here and thats why you see on camera that were not getting blown around as much. Were not going to stand out there any longer as the wall in the eye of this hurricane approaches closer to where we are, but this is it. Just landing on the ground and you can imagine all the other kind of debris that is flying around out there as this storm makes it way toward us, chris. Reporter wlrt. We got to make it through this phase and then we have to deal with what chad was explaining earlier as the redistribution of the energy, when the wind comes around the other direction and brings that storm surge, then you get another phase of this. And you also get a different dynamic just in terms of the mechanics of what it does to the surrounding structures and foliage. Chad, weigh in on this if i get it wrong, i remember it from you, which is everythings thats been fighting to stay up in one way is now going to get hit at its weakest angle the other way when the Energy Redistributes and the wind starts coming from another way, accurate or no . Accurate. The other thing to talk about is how powerful water is and if you get a surge of ten to 15 feet in that area, homes will be lost. The building itself will be lost whereas a wind event, you can hide from it, you lose shingles, you may lose a sheet of plywood from your roof, but you wont lose your home. If you get hit by this storm surge thats still to come, thats when you lose things. Officially, i said 1 30, National Weather service out of Naples Airport just had 1 31, 18 minutes ago. You were in it, 1 31. I hope thats as bad as it gets. Youre now beginning to get to a slightly inner core of the storm itself and now slightly less in wind and in 20 minutes it may very well be calm. Reporter from your lips to god ears, when you take a look at the map, where are we in terms of that . Is that what youre showing everybody right now . Yes, naples manner which is about four miles south of you is already in the eye. Theyre in good shape. Golden gate. Youre getting hit, honestly. This is one of the neighborhoods thats really getting slammed to your west, probably still 131 for them. Naples down to 115 and 110 it is going down from here as we get you closer and closer to the eye now less than probably 15 minutes before youll see all the palm fronds just fall down to the ground or just limp down to the side of the tree because the wind will go to near zero. Reporter so thats what we have coming our way and thats good to know from those who are monitoring it. We know we have a lot of people in florida who are watching this. Were thinking about you. We hope you took the right precautions. We hope that youre still able to follow the coverage. If you see us able to be doing what were doing, hopefully, the structure that youre in is going to be just fine and what weve been watching around us as dramatic as it is, hopefully it is not as dangerous as it is dramatic. So far this tree line is holding here and these buildings are still protected that are around us, less so on the other side and you see things blowing around in the air here, a little bit of wizard of oz style, theyre fairly small projeck tielgz at this point, not the kinds of things that ive seen do damage in the past. Thats a good sign as well but again, there is no cause for false optimism. Well have to see what happens on the backside of this storm and with the storm surge as chad has been coaching us all along, the wind is dramatic. Theres no question about that. Theres a Danger Component to it, but it is water that kills. Its drowning that takes peoples lives in hurricanes and storm surge is not just powerful, but lasting. So were going to have to stee. I keep going back to timing, chad, because especially when youre in it, thats just your natural reaction to it from an endurance standpoint, is how much longer, how much longer and the scary part is, at least from the perspective on the ground, its how much longer there is . Watching john and those correspondents, you know its a long time and things just only have so much tolerance, whether its a structure or a vehicle or even an Infrastructure System of your roadways and your sue wang and i dont mean that just from some planning perspective, im saying backup of sewage, homes not being able to have liveable conditions, what they cause has been tabability. Thats what all this is about, its about what all this does to their lifestyle. Your perspective and your take on it so far that youre getting why the governor was so conscientious about saying were talking about weeks here, talking about commitment from the federal government for weeks and months and in the billions in terms of what they estimated going into this. Do you think theyre going to wind up being justified in what they thought going into it . Without a doubt. Without a doubt. This storm had the punch when it was over cuba at 160 Miles Per Hour and to the people of northern cuba we are internally grateful what happened to your country is a shame. It was the damage that created the storm to go from 160 to 130. It was a true remarkable reduction in power that our country didnt have to take and as now moving over key largo and into the keys and into collier county, all of a sudden we had a Survivalable Storm where 160 to 165 in some places with wind speeds there would not have been survivable. You are now getting into a much better place here, chris, youre going to get into the winds dropping off rapidly to 35, 45 Miles Per Hour and thats the good news, but the rest of the story is that were going from here to pelican bay to Bonita Springs heading up the coast with the same event that you just had there. I have a question for you, if you can hear me, i know the winds going down a little bit. I dont know if you had a chance to do any ground truth but the road that we see below you, how many feet is that above sea level . Reporter all right. Chad, waters coming up the street here. I dont know if you can see it, dave show it to them. This just like is coming out of nowhere. All of a sudden this street is flooded. Do you see it. Absolutely. Reporter you think this is just flooding and the sewer system letting go. No, i believe that this is the bubble of water that youre about to see as the storm surge makes its way into marco island and naples, godldengate. Reporter this came out of nowhere, chad. Yes, it is. Yes it did. Reporter literally we have a 1 1 2 of Standing Water here in literally no time flat. My producer just told me to turn around. I just turn around. We see the crane again and i turned back around and literally were surrounded by water here and i dont mean that its not dangerous but its a lot of water really fast and what does this mean obviously its deeper as you get closer, right . Sure. Itll be deeper as you get closer to the Gulf Of Mexico. Theres a little barrier there from the Gulf Of Mexico spilling over to naples into marco island but that barriers going to be easily breached and that water will be right there. I was just curious as to how many feet up sea level that road was. Im not able to do that right now standing here at the weather board. Im thinking not ten feet above sea level, not more than that. Reporter give me a little sense of timing, again. I apologize, but again i just feel like so much of it is about duration and tolerance. What are we looking at . As this eye goes by, give me my next time component so that the people who are in parts north get a sense of proportion in terms of, you know, what kinds of waves they can look for . Take a look at the palm trees and the palm fronds barely now moving, slowing down and in the eye itself the skies will begin to lighten and brighten and then all of a sudden the bubble of water that has been following along with this storm all the way through the caribbean, we saw pictures that if you didnt they are amazing in the bahamas where the water was gone from the islands and people were saying, ive never seen this before, how did this ever happen, where did the water go . The water went with the hurricane. It did have that bubble of water, the surge water thats going to come in now and if you think a Fresh Water Flood is bad, a Saltwater Flood is even worse for homes and businesses and the people that have to clean up after that Saltwater Flood and thats whats on its way. The surge flood, a Flash Flood Emergency is still in effect for collier county. That means flash flooding is going to occur or is occurring and it will be lifethreatening. Thats where we are now. I dont know because the sfloe speed of the storm only 12milesperhour how quickly that water will be five or ten or 15 feet high but it will be less than a half hour, chris, i think. Reporter all right. And thats good to hear because im just trying to weigh different factors. The main considerations, the windows that were looking at is when can the First Responders get out. Theyre going to need winds that die down and not just during the eye, right, because theyre all sophisticated enough to know what youre telling us right now. It just makes me wonder if were seeing this here, what is the situation for the people if theyre still in homes as we get down there towards where that surge is much closer to that ten to 15 feet that you were talking about. Control room, do we have ed down there . I wonder what the water is looking like on the ground for him. Do we have him . Ed . Reporter im here, chris, can you hear me were adjusting the camera here. The winds have settled down a little bit so that gives us a little bit of opportunity to adjust and give a better perspective. That was an unreal hour and a half i suspect of intensity that weve seen here downtown streets of naples. The winds have died down enough where we can show you what we experienced here. Look thats to be expected. Those tree limbs there. This is part of the this is part of the tile that came flying off the roof of the building that were in there and now weve gotten a little bit better view and you can really start to see a little bit of, you know, the tree damage is to be expected. As soon as all of this passes through and now its starting to kick up again. We had a break there to give you a better perspective. But thats what were facing there. Obviously the tree damage is going to be unbelievably extensive through naples. Thats to be expected. The damage to the rest of the infrastructure were not in a position to really gauge here at this point. Were just in the process of trying to withstand and endure what this hurricane is bringing here to southwest florida. Now the visibility is back which is stunning because now we can see several more hundred yards through the trees here that weve been providing you the live picture from and you can see the flood the floodwaters and the amount of water that is collected and pocketed up in various parts of the street, thats going to be even worse on the backside of this storm as the storm surge starts coming in from the gulf side and what youve seen there, along that main street that youre on is extensive as well and thats going to be even worse in some of the more lower lying areas. The area were in we picked it was set up a little bit higher here in the city but in those parts where its much more lower lying as soon as we can get to those hours in the ahead, well be able to report more extensively and give people a better picture of what is occurred here but the intensity of that is just unreal and it is unbelievable to describe what we have endured here for nearly two hours, chris . Reporter theyre telling us that this is the eye is passing over. It doesnt feel like, chad. I thought the eye was supposed to be like this piece of calm where you look up and you see the sky or whatever it is. Were still getting hit here. I want dave to sneak out if he can now that its not as nasty, i want to show them the storm surge and, ed, just get in my ear real quick, how far is the hotel from the marina again . I forget from when i was walking down there this morning, eight blocks . Reporter just to give a sense of proportion. Reporter theres two different bodies i can hear you, chris. Theres two different Bodies Of Water that we have to keep tabs on. On the west side of us we have the Gulf Of Mexico. Were probably about a good eight blocks from that. Thats that direction. If you look back over here toward the east about a mile or so is where that marina is and where the river that comes in on the east side of naples and that is going to be the area of real concern because that storm surge gets pushed back in there and that starts fanning its way out through the neighborhoods and so that marinas about a mile away. Reporter all right. I got you. Let me get dave out here, the pj, our photojournalist part of the team just to get you down this street. Big man come over here and show them down the streets. If were eight blocks away, you go past me, dave and get down get down that street. Were eight blocks away. Chad to give you some perspective on this. Heres eight blocks away and this is about you look at the yellow curb here at Fifth Avenue South And Park Street and youre at about eight inches to ten inches of water, okay, right here and the buildings are fine. That part of the integritys all right. You got your typical debris from that gusting. When you look down the street, you see that theres been breech there, at least on one side of the street. The water has gotten into the buildings and its got to be well over a foot or so deep and thats still 6 1 2, 7 blocks from the marina. How does that fill in the blanks for you . What that is Fresh Water Flooding. That is the rain that came down and went into the lowest part of that city and that is all fresh water. That has no content in it whatsoever because the water from the solinity, the water from the Gulf Of Mexico has not truly arrived yet. A brandnew Flash Flood Emergency for naples just issued about five minutes ago and so the water is still at the Mean Sea Level right now but it is quickly rising and it will rise ten to 15 feet. This is almost waiting for a tsunami, although it wont be a tidal wave, itll be a surge where one wave that comes up that street, if youre at the right level. I dont know what your elevation is there, but if you were at any elevation thats five feet above sea level, you will see five feet or ten feet on top of that. The one wave will come in, itll be a wash like a wave without a crest or a curl and then that will stay and then the next wave will come in and the first one wont go away like it usually does at the sea shore. The next waves going to come in and it wont go away and then a next wave wont go away and it wont go away and this is not what you want to do. You do not want to be out with your dog when the waters coming up. Reporter i know. Chad, hes got his three legged dog, he says hes lucky. Hold on. Hey. Hey, pal. Hes walking his dog. I see youre out with the dog again. [ inaudible ]. Reporter you got to get back inside, pal. We got the backside of the storm still to come. The surge isnt here yet. Please get back in. Ill come find you after. Now most of the people here, chad, theres a lot of media. The good news is, they believe that most of who needed to evacuate did. We saw that local last night. Nice guy. Three legged dog. Hes one of these salty types. Been here for a long time. He knows what to worry about. Hes probably thinking what i was, chad, which is all right, so heres that surge they were telling us about. It wasnt as bad. Youre saying we havent even seen it yet. That this is just like a little bit this is just a little bit of an vantage. This is a little bit of a runway for this surge. It can just follow this water. Isnt that going to make it easier for the surge to penetrate if theres already if its already liquid all the way up the road . Absolutely, no question. This now ground is already saturated, not that it was going to soak in at all any way, but the surge coming well see this rain that is now going to mix with the saltwater just continue to make the flooding worse. Reporter let me interrupt you for one second. Do me a favor. Keep talking people through about whats going to happen next. Im going to go down to the street level so we can figure out, you know, what this means and i can get a better set of eyes for you on the road. Daves going to keep giving you the shot. Ill be out of it for a second. Ill be right back in a minute, okay. Fair enough. Heres what i would like to show you, for any one whos still in naples. Lets come back to the weather wall here on camera one. All of a sudden the spike from the naples tidal gauge is here, the spike that we anticipated for the entire day has now arrived. Its because the eye wall itself has gone by all of the forces of the wind that pushing the water out, all those forces are now gone and so therefore, the eye itself will begin to bring the water back up and when you get on the backside of the eye, thats when the water is going to spike. I guess we cannot get this shot right now but i will get it to you. 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The highest gusting wind was about 140 miles an hour that came through here, 141, which is maxed out at 141 which is some kind of record for an Atlantic Hurricane but you know well leave all the statistical information for later. Unfortunately, this is like halftime. Some people are out here, theres a lot of anxiousness to check on their homes, a lot of people have taken refugee in the local hotels, they want to get back and see. My man, chuck here, has got his three legged dog. Every hurricane needs a three legged dog. Theyre out here to look around at it and this is just were under the eye right now. We know that we have the whole backside to go. This isnt storm surge. This is the flooding and you know what, thats a little intimidating. Chad, you were right. This was a flash flood. This is fresh water. This is rain water. And it did come here to a low point which is kind of where we are. You can see it with the sweep of the land, the water has followed that which means we dont know what is to come yet but we do know that this is a path of advantage. So the good news is it looks okay where we are right now. We dont know how it is in parts closer to the gulf or the river that borders this part of naples, proper, come on by. People are trying to ferry around as soon as they can. Now, i know chad were supposed to be telling them not do it now you tell me why, what is coming yet here that they have to worry about . Well, chris, honestly, the backside is coming. We know it is and if you venture out for 15 feet to let your dog do some duty, thats okay but i dont want you walking down to the ocean for sure and seeing whats going on there because thats where the waters coming from and as the backside of the eye comes in the Wind Shift Direction and the reason why you never saw water in your harbor today because of the Wind Direction and when the wind changes direction, all of that water in the harbor is going to come back and its going to come back way surge of ten to 15 feet higher than youve ever seen above sea level before. So this is a big surge for many people that have never ever experienced this type of thing. Other than st. Louis, which had a 24 foot, 26 foot storm surge, very rarely any place else has ever seen ten to 15 feet. Reporter so if im eight blocks from the gulf contact here with naples, what do you think the chances that they get water coming this way . Because this would be the main artery, this is a road that goes right down to the waters edge. This is where the marina is, am i right about that . Chuck, chuck this road, if we follow it all the way down, how close to the marina, to the water do you get . From here to the water is about a mile and this would be a straight conduit awe the way to it . Yes, sir. How many feet above sea level do you think . About five feet right here. Reporter you think youre five feet above sea level right here . Chad do you hear me. Yes, the waters coming. The water isnt coming like a tsunami. Reporter you think the water is going to come to where we are . I do. Especially when the wind blows it that way as well. Not only is there a swell under the storm itself but theres going to be wind to project it to move it your way and it will propel all the way up that street if that is a straight shot to the ocean because thats the direction the wind is going to be coming from. Reporter so, chuck, chad says if were about five feet that that storm surge that sucked the water out of the bay down there, that its going to be coming at least this far wheres your house . I live in houston. I just endured from hurricane harvey. Reporter youre here hanging out and you got a big knife on your hip. So the waters going to come this far at least and thats something to remember and, no, we will not venture down there and you do see people coming out. Theres curiosity, obviously. You have a lot of local heres and store owners who we were talking to before the storm. They were worried, chad. People worry about their businesses. They worry about their livelihood and there is a temptation to want to get out as soon as possible. Theres also a ton of media and you hope the people you see out early are just media. But you do feel that it can come to where we are, huh . No question about it. Lets just project this a little bit forward to others in the path. What we showed on Television Just 30 minutes ago is already and still happening north of you, so i know it looks like oh, its over, well, yes, its over where you are but it is not over for Bonita Springs. You are in it right now. Naples park which is about ten miles north of you in it right now in the northern eye wall and that eye wall again will continue all the way to sarasota, all the way to anna maria until it either dies out because of contact with dry land or it goes back out into the ocean and kind of stays with us all the way to tampa and hills brou. What is that car doing . Reporter its about what youre choosing, chad, on that menu of suck that Hurricane Irma is bringing our way. You have the you have those winds and all that drama but then you have that storm surge which is of acute concern to all of these different pockets of communities on the west coast because thats what can create not just a second phase because it gets you with that Surprise Effect but that is what create the Real Property damage and the real threats to locking people in place. Absolutely, its the water that will kill you. We call it a storm surge. What it is is a flash flood and its a 15 foot flash flood that comes from the ocean and clearly these people didnt know about it or dont know about it. Chris, i have a question for you, you have a cell phone on you. Your phone is working . Reporter yeah. My whole pocket is filled with water. What do you want to know . Did you ever today get an alert on your phone that said Flash Flood Emergency in your area . Reporter no. My phone my phone is not not 100 , chad and not surprising because i got it in my pocket during a hurricane. I get it. We didnt get any alerts. If it werent for you i wouldnt have known what that was. To me i wouldve thought it was the storm surge because that water came out of nowhere but you told me it was flash flood and i dont want to have death by escalade here. That was that Standing Water and now its gone almost as fast as it came. My question to you is how about the storm surge, will that go as quickly as it comes . What are the factors that go into that . The surge will last as long as the water pushes it on land and certainly that surge will be where you are, i believe. If youre only five feet above sea level then you will be standing in water up to your waist if not more and i know youll get out of there before that, but i would say thats going to last at least three to four hours. Now, we think about look how calm the water is other than the cadillac just driving through it, that water that comes in is not going to be calm because its going to be pushed by a gust of 110 Miles Per Hour, so there will be waves on top of that ten foot surge as soon as it gets into that downtown. I dont have any contact with marco island right now. I have tried. I have looked. I havent seen because they wouldve already been seeing this surge. It would be there. It will be. It is there right now. I just dont know how bad it is. The same surge that we saw with katrina, even though katrina was only a cat three, cat four at