around me attached to a that some houses are built on off of sea level but as you building. i know you re a pro at this but said, a lot of the areas hit be very careful. right now are poor areas, lower you have high winds and you have income areas and if your house got the idea that there could be wasn t destroyed you had no tornadoes around there. reason to rebuild. right. remember, what we saw after trees are coming down and none of the codes prepared for oak hurricane katrina was a lot of places along the gulf coast and pine trees slicing through rebuilt to code but a lot of the roof and still very dangerous situation. places didn t. even with the better codes, this is east of this. never meant we wouldn t have mobile west was involved in damaged. just less damages and repair hurricane katrina and if there was rebuilding to be done it was done but there s a lot of your home versus losing buildings around there that just everything. can t manage a storm this the focus on the safety
worst-case scenario kind of fema administrator under storm for the florida panhandle as the national weather service president obama, craig fugate. is saying. the wind gusts really starting to pick up in the past hour to craig has a deep understanding the point unsafe for us to be of storms and storms in this region. craig, let s start with outside. we drove over here. along the way we could really see the trees, the debris start 155-mile-a-hour winds. what does that mean to structures in the area? to fly around. how serious is that for i m going to move away, closer to the wall here so my cameraman buildings? well, unfortunately, this is scott can show you the trees a very rural, low income area in behind me and how many of them are starting to break apart. many places with older mobile now, i want to give you a sense of where i am now. homes not built to current codes and expect a lot of structural where this is. over here to my right, that is damage, but also, all the trees coming
gassing. people repairing and a lot of people left. i would say 50% left. 50% stayed. every neighbor i know within a quarter smile here. is there. did those people have time to prepare their homes, board them up, make their way to the grocery store? without power and given the strength of this storm, people will be stuck at home for quite sometime. they did. even though it came on fairly quickly, we were anticipating a tropical storm or, you know, a category 1 because in the panhandle you can never underestimate the wobble of a storm coming this way. so most people i do think had plenty of time to prepare. we have generators. we have window unit acs. as a matter of fact in the past ten minutes my husband plugged in the generator and window unit ac and a lamp on and an ac unit going for now and that s what s going to sustain us probably for the next three or four days.
but of course, later in the day when the hurricane comes and the winds shift we ll go around another corner for that protection, guys. that is a useful piece of information for viewers to understand. where are you and why are you not protecting? how come you re out there and you follow the pattern of a hurricane and make sure you year on t on the other side of it. you ll see kerry and others shift around. kerry, don t go too far. you re in the business of helping people. i want to bring in bill with we re in the business of helping you. this in panama city right now. business loans for eligible card members yeah. address this. up to fifty thousand dollars, a lot of people on vacation. decided in as little as 60 seconds. we still have you there, kerry? the powerful backing of american express. not sure if we have kerry or don t do business without it. not. it was better than i thought it was going to be in panama city you may be learning about, medicare and supplemental insurance. b
storm a few moments ago. i want to give an update on and i m sure it will make it through this one. i hunkered down but it s scary the really devastating storm looking outside. bearing down on florida. i want our residents, i hope it s moving rapidly and it s at they re all hunkered down good, the ones that stayed because we had quite a few people stay. a very high level. some are saying it s one of the all of those people who biggest storms ever to hit our stayed, did they have time at country. it built very rapidly,ed the very least whether to gas up the car or to get to the grocery a briefing with secretary of store? because once this storm passes, homeland security and the residents might be without power or really ability to get around administrator of fema and we are for sometime. you didn t have much time to watching hurricane michael. prepare. it s just hitting shore now. yes. up until the time the stores winds are going up to close to closed today, they were pumping gas.