severe flooding, certainly a storm surge, beach erosion. what worries me especially for our barrier islands, if we getting flooding across our causeways we won t be able to get emergency vehicles on or off any of those islands and that s why we ordered the evacuation. brian: you must be saying to myself how did this become my problem? in the beginning it looks like a caribbean, florida problem. when did you become aware this was going to be a georgia problem? i think georgia is in a unique position. i told people yesterday when i was down on the coast i feel like we are the traffic light because we have got the storm with people from florida coming through georgia. people from south carolina are coming to georgia to get on our interstates to evacuate. plus we have got our own people we have got to move. we are being very dill janet about the traffic as well. we start contra flow on i-16 westbound probably right now or certain live by 8:00 this morning.
bars. since about midday today, it has been deserted. you re going to see sandbags at the doors, bar stools up on tables. garbage bags, entire bars cov covered up with sheets. this is not normal. this is a place that would see a lot of traffic, a lot of tourists, but given the fact they are waiting for dorian and those mandatory evacuation orders were put into place today, a lot of people heeded that warning and got out of town, especially when their hotel said, we re closing the doors, head out. so, the mayor of savannah tonight issuing a very ominous warning, saying to folks, this is not something to try and ride out, not this one. this is not the storm to try your luck. you only have one life and he doesn t want to see any lives lost, so, he was urging people that were still here to make their way out of town. starting tomorrow, contra flow on i-16 heading out of savannah, as well, to try to get that traffic out of here without a jam. the civic center will be opening its doors at 8:
this is a low lying area and they re worried that it could really affected a lot of the businesses along this thorough fare. a very popular, busy spot. the governor putting the mandatory evacuations in place this morning. there are going to be opening the civic center tomorrow morning. having guests who maybe wanted to evacuate and could not get out. have a place to go. as well as contra flow on i-16. they ll be sending cars out, trying on get as many out of georgia ahead of the weather set to arrive here wednesday. lots of people taking the evacuation orders seriously, as you can tell, and getting out of georgia before the storm arrives. thank you for that. the southeastern u.s. is waiting for whatever dorian brings. people in the bahamas are waiting for the storm to get out. on the phone with us, the morning host with hot 91.7 radio. the station has been crying to keep people in the bahamas informed.