but you are also, you have a family and i m sure you are concerned about them. so how are you personally handling this? yeah. i was at the eoc when the governor came down yesterday here in sarasota county and literally came back to my house and cut down four dead pine trees i knew if they went a certain direction would take out a fence and power pole. i made preps. my family is good. we have prepared over the years since erma. we have a backup generator. we have hurricane windows and shutters. there are a lot of people that don t have that. hurricane windows are not inexpensive. a lot of people, if they an older home haven t done that helped neighbors board up windows with plywood. fuel has been an issue i have seen. the state is saying it s not an issue. when i have gone the last couple of days you haven t been able to get anything. at this point 40 mile-per-hour window gusts outside, 25, 26 mile-per-hour sustained winds. you are not going out in this. if you are where you are, you
worry about, this pink box right there, that s a tornado warning. remember, talking about katrina, katrina had 59 tornadoes associated with it. this is just coming onshore. keep an eye out for tornadoes. let s not forget more than 1,800 people died during katrina. chad, we ll get back to you. thank you very much. we re already getting stunning video captured by a surveillance camera earlier today. take a look at this. this is the storm surge in grand isle, louisiana, expected to rise to as much as 16 feet. i want to bring in meteorologist derek van dam in houma, louisiana, west of pwhere ida made landfall. i want to remind our viewers, you re being very careful, you and your crew. yeah. we ve got reinforced concrete building with hurricane windows where we can vacate to very
two stories, concrete, hurricane windows. we have a few friends sheltering with us, a few windows. my friend and colleague joe is here as well. we re waiting until 11:00 because that s when high tide is supposed to come. that s going to be a key moment. at this point we definitely have been some of the luckier people in grand bahama. we ve had some pretty strong winds but haven t been dealing with things like sarah, who s a friend of ours. we ve been seeing videos of people fleeing into attics, people going onto rooftops. jet skis being deployed to try to get people out. we re in a good spot but feeling for a lot of people on this island. some of the video that we re seeing right now, i m not sure if it was that s my front yard. we re looking at sea water, but it s an area flooding.
they have hurricane windows that can within stand 200-mile-per-hour winds. here on the harbor it s mostly a title event. so worst case scenario it comes through with the right side of the storm and a surge at high tide and the water comes flooding in. but if it does, the buildings are built to have the but totto blow out, the garage blows out and it goes out with the tide. flooding here is a common event but we re hoping itness not going to be so bad this year. hoping for the best. thank you very much. craig, that really is the perspective, a lot of people have weathered a lot of storms here. this area prone to be flooding where we are right now. just a few minutes away is downtown charleston and even when there is rain in the forecast there is flooding. so we re kind of watching the system, hopefully it s a low tide. if dorian hits because if it s a high tide the situation could be obviously a lot worse, craig. yeah, you can get some