someone whose family had to actually flee their home on the beach because of the storm. nicole salazar is in fairfield, connecticut, and joins us now. nicole? hi, veronica. how are you? hi. thanks for spending time with us. you had to flee your home on the beach. where was that? i live on fairfield beach road in fairfield and i had to evacuate around 10:00 a.m. when the police came around and gave us mandatory evacuation notices. why was this? was the water rising in that area? at the time it wasn t. i think they just wanted to get everybody out before the storm really started to pick up. you don t know what s happening there now in terms of damage? i don t. a little scary. where are you and your family right now? we re currently staying with some friends of ours on the other side of town. we re actually in a very wooded area, and trees are making me a little bit nervous.