roof, nothing else to the building. every single house, everywhere you look, this is probably one of the better collections of standing houses that you can see in marsh island. most of it looks more like this. it is apocalyptic. there are no leaves. these ones are up right. everybody s tires are blown out and windows are blown out. we have seen cars pancaked on top of each other. we drove by an atm. there were two guys getting into a fight in front of it. fire officials pulled out and one of them had a revolver in his hand. this is developing into that place where there is no food and money and there is no gasoline. right at the port, there is a diesel ship that s pulled in, container ship that has diesel on it from fort lauderdale. there is a military container
not only mexico beach, there are other small adjacent cities, beacon hill, st. jo beach, it looks like a war zone out there practically. chunks of the road are gone, boats and cars pancaked on top of houses. there are houses in the middle of the street. residents starting to come out to the horror. almost everyone says they don t know where they go from here, local favorites, restaurants, there s a hotel completely wiped out. ali? you were a few towns over at port st. jo, it could have come on shore where you were, and we talked to the mayor yesterday, people stayed. did people stay in mexico beach? we re looking at the pictures. it looks, i have to tell you, we have done a few hurricanes, it looks like tornado damage than hurricane damage. there are houses that appear to be shredded. it absolutely looks like
threatening the cause even more destruction. she was able to file this report by phone minutes ago. i got to say driving up and down highway 98, there are other small smaller places. all of them look like a war zone. there are chunks of the the road that are gone. there are boats and cars pancaked on top of houses. there are even houses in the middle of the road. there s a point where we just couldn t drive any further into mexico beach. iconic restaurants like two cons, hotel, completely wiped out. you re starting to see residents come out and begin to get a first look at the horror and they tell you things like they don t know where they go from there. most of them, the folks we spoke to rode out the storm in mexico