you have a cement house, so you re feeling pretty good about it. even if we were to go to a shelter, they re all made of cement as well so i might as well stay at my house. it s a new house. and your friend, brie, you booked a ticket to visit. you knew the hurricane was coming and you decided to come anyway. i m here on vacation and i m going to try to enjoy as much as i can before the hurricane hits. reporter: are you happy to see it take its turn up north. i feel relieved it s going to go the other way. reporter: watching college football, and cocktailing. swimming, just enjoying the weather. it s nice out for sure. going to enjoy it while it lasts. reporter: stay safe, enjoy yourselves and that s the general attitude, people are feeling like they dodged a bullet for sure. this is ryan brady, the general manager of this restaurant, so obviously the crowd may be a little smaller than it is on a typical saturday. definitely a little bit smaller. i think people are bei
happening and i was by myself. i passed the hurricane by myself. it s a cement house where the construction is most secure. i feel most secure around there. here i never thought i would have the same situation here. right here, the consideration of having to be home. here you spent winters in puerto rico and summers here in myrtle beach. what s your biggest fear being here in mertle beach here a hurricane for the second time in not very long? i don t think i m going to have a house if the winds hit hard. upon i live very close to the shore. like two miles from the shore. that s why i chose this shelter. it was the closest to me. sandra, we are wishing you the best of luck and hopefully your mobile home stays dry and you don t have to go back to
right now. the most devastating category storm there is or hurricane there is. it will have catastrophic damage for cuba. it is not done with us yet. it is rolling up the coast here, michael. for the people whose path it is in, you have to pray for them. how prepared were people, patrick? everybody knew this was coming. what sorts of preparations were done? what preparations could be done given the circumstances? reporter: you know, the government was moving resources in. we saw trucks going by with loud speakers telling people to evacuate throughout the day. people were aware of the storm. some people told me they were not afraid. they did not want to leave their houses. we are in a cement house. we picked this house to stay here because of that. it will not blow down. there are hundreds of other homes in the town. thousands of other homes along