Chain Links and Plywood Downtown Lansing Before the Inauguration
Boarded up buildings downtown Lansing. The Capitol building looming in the background.
If you don t know what s going on, you might assume that a business went out of business for some reason or another.
Still if you knew a little bit about the pandemic, you d assume another business closed because of the economy and jobs being cut and restrictions.
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But no.
MSU Federal Credit Union, MLive next to it, Abood Law Firm and several others (not all mind you) have decided to board up their windows and doorways.
The message was clear. the message was unified from local and state officials about the potential danger of the storm. the people here really, almost to a man from hapless listened, boarded up, and left. it s really just a destruction of property at this point, whether it will come from the wind or whether it will come from the next several days from the water. shannon: steve, you ll stick around. we want to check in with leland as well. i know that you have seen the waters continue to rise where you are. what are the latest conditions? it s important to note the water here is rising and you can see the dock we have been watching lift up and at times look like it s about to snap off. the tide is going out. the water is rising. that gives you a sense of how strong the storm surge is. we are about six hours into the really bad conditions in morehead city. you think to yourself, normally that would be good news, the tide is going out but conceivably, there is a whole
About miami beach, those structures right along the beach are or certainly in the keys and tampa, in sanibel and naping, they could take severe damage due to storm surge. julie: yeah. and a lot of them, obviously, facing the ocean are all windows. hopefully, most of those are covered up, boarded up, but some aren t. and when those windows break, that s when you have flying glass and the superior of homes completely gutted. right. julie: i want to talk more about the storm surge, because this is so serious. the ocean water is deadly. it s among one of the deadliest symptoms of any hurricane packing winds such as hurricane irma. they re associated with persistent winds and low pressure. they could actually push the waves 6-12 feet of water into southwest florida sunday morning with a storm surge of about 5-10 feet. now, that doesn t even take into account high tide, nor does it take waves on top of those storm surges. what type of flooding are the
The outer bands really are what we re feeling. winds picked up. the rain is continuing to fall. the surf has been heavy all day. you talk about people leaving and not getting out. i want to give you an idea of what s going on in daytona beach. not beautiful tv but it gives you a good, descriptive idea. ryan ryan, if you can show him. we have our camera under the tunnel to protect the gear. you can see it s an empty area down there. the streets have been empty for quite some time. if you re going to evacuate, the time s run out. if you re still here, you re inside your home, boarded up, moved whatever you can, and that s how you re dealing with it. there have been a lot of people, unfortunately, chris, that we ve talked to here in daytona beach who tell me, yeah, we re going to ride this thing out. we ve been through them before. the problem is each hurricane is different and we ve been in quite a few. this is a major hurricane. a category 4. we haven t seen that in this area in over a