Dangerous and its really the lack of visibility. We can barely see 100 yards in either direction and obviously with the winds blowing at this speed if there is debris flying through the air i dont want to be out in the middle of that and get caught up side the head by some Flying Branch or anything like that reporter hold on one second, ed. Stay where you are. Stay where you are right now because some of these big trees are surrounding this hotel. I dont know if theyre going to make it. Theyre starting to creep out. Look, the palm tree is an extraordinary piece of vegetation. Theres no question about it. Theyre built to bend. There are a lot of trees that arent that and theyre starting to split and fail under the strain on them and weve been watching it and the concern is that these trees are going to go into the structures across and while they may not look physically impressive to you, were talking about thousands and thousands of pounds and even more of that force if they do
fall in
surrounding buildings by us. this is somewhat of a commercial area where we are now. there are residences as you get into the four, five, six blocks away where we are, as you get closer into the water, there are residences along the water. we don t give a damn about property in a situation like this. we re about protecting life and that s what all the precautions were about. but you ve got mega, mega mansions town there. the governor has one. we re talking 10, $15 million homes and they were built close to the water and as beautiful as that is, it s equally as dangerous. remarkable that this tree is standing. i m watching it split in realtime but it s getting there. ed, what are you seeing down where you are? let me step out of this. reporter: i m going to take a quick little step out oh, man. a quick little step out so you can get a sense of just how quickly the water is moving through here on the street. this is the the most severe