obviously there are a couple of hurricanes coming up behind irma so we re not sure what we ll be getting in the neck couple days. let s talk about that because you left us in such sus spence yesterday. the hurricane was bearing down on you and your friend. we re looking at your video of how intense it got. what is your strategy now for getting off the island? well, right now, we we ve had flights canceled and rebooked every day and oush latest ones on friday and saturday were just canceled so one of us, two of us have booked flight the for sunday and the rest are trying to figure out what to do next in terms of flying out. if irma is going to hit florida, we re not two of us are from florida specifically sar a tote ta and we re not really sure if we should try and go there or head somewhere else to avoid the
storm. my car is actually parked in miami so i m not sure where to go. i bet. this is wow. how nerve-wracking has this week been for you? very stressful. it went from our happy tropical vacation with the company, holly and i own to being evacuate from the villa to trying to get flights out and being told no. moving into this hotel and being rocked by this hurricane. it s been a whirlwind of a week. we haven t gotten a lot of sleep or don t have running water. power s out, can t charge the phones or anything. so like i told jose, my phone s down to 3%. so we re just trying to get by at this point. got it. keep in touch with our family. we ll let you go. we re happy to have helped you help your family, hear your voice. let you go. take tear of yourself and check back in with you tomorrow.
it is likely it is having an affect but we can t tell you how big. we had the 1935 florida keys hurricane. we ve had extremely powerful storm the in past decades but if you look at super typhoon and harvey, some of these monstrous storms, you have to wonder if climate change is beginning to have a noticeable affect. but in future decades it will be even more clear. so category 5, which is what irma is, we re seeing wind gust, chad myers just reported to us wind gust at loft, very, very high elevation, not on the ground but something like 200 miles per hour. put this in context to us what irma looks like to you. i mean it s absolutely an incredible storm. it maintained winds of at least 185 miles per hour for more than 40 hours which is longer than any storm in r0rd ded history on the entire earth. in terms of duration and intensity, there is no storm to rival this one.
watching the nichols and dimes right now. just worried about people s lives. but it seems like you were writing a flurry of letters not just to fema but sort of an e-mail writing tick to all sorts of people trying to sound the alarms. you wrote to the ftc, you wrote to noaa because you re worried about what? hurricane hunters? indeed. we ve got a single point failure in our g-4 that flies above the hurricane and proves the track accuracy by 15%. that s a single point failure. same thing with the hurricane hunters that go in h at 30,000 feet, fly around in the eye of the storm. they drop sounds, now dropping unmanned aerial vehicles that help improve the accuracy.