put sand bags. we live in an area that s secure. and pretty high. so we re just taking those steps to get things done. did your neighbors stay too? i think about half of our neighbors are staying in the neighborhood. we did have some people who decided to leave. but most of us are hunkering down and riding out the storm. who is there with you. my husband and my mom, my brothers. a few friends from the neighborhood. are here we re all just hanging out waiting for irma to roll through. the last person we asked that question said they had four doings three cats and chickens this has become a game for us. hold on a second ali it was eight dogs. johnny, you have adequate food, water and what are your plans for power if the power goes out? well we i ve been preparing for this storm for the past week.
flooding they are expect going to be much worse here. and the people are still saying. one had a homemade boat he planned to get in ifs things got bad. another woman said their plan was to flow up an air mattress and float away. that s not a plan at all. people in dangerous situations that didn t get out. and we re running out of time now. officials said if you hadn t left by 11:00 in many places it s too late now. and so these people are just hunkering down. and i was physically nauseous talking to them because i was so worried. i was asking is there anything i can do to change your mind? and they were determined to stay. kristin thank you for that. that s unbelievable. there are now 76,000 people witht power. i wa toote something we mentioned in the last few mites differen numbers you can tech if you want to let
and his family. and there is 19 of us. between all of us we have the six dogs and three cats zbra i guess it s got to be some degree it s comforting, riding it out with all your loved ones about you. how have you prepared? what have you got in terms of water, food, necessary medication, you know tell me how you prepared. we ve been preparing for several days. this isn t the first hurricane we ve gone through. we had early on in the week filled up all the gas tanks. we have many cases of water. we had food. everyone brought food. we re doing okay. we have a generator an underground generator that gives power for two weeks in the event the power goes out. we re okay right now the power is still on where we re at. is your husband on duty right now? he actually is sleeping. he has been working the 6:00 a.m. shift. he gets up in the morning at 4:30. he goes in at 6:00. he has been coming home between
you remember after sandy and other hurricanes they got to bring in new poles and things like that. people who lost power now may be without power a few days. the good news at least the weather is not cold. that s a concern for some people in the virgin islands. i spoke to people in st. thomas who said they might not get power back for months tough to live somewhere without power. yeah sorry you re going to have to talk that s orlando. we are taking a look at orlando right now. it s range. but as we just heard from david baumann some people have less concern than they did even a day ago as they start to believe the ning is heading west. but it s still going to hit. this is hurricane irma. we are watching it as the rain continues to fall. you re watching msnbc.
jersey national gartd and utilityman. we stand by you today. chris christie remembering hurricane sandy. look at the image. hurricane sandy was only a category 5 florida looking at a 3. in all the headquarters i covered in the days after you see utility trucks going from the entire country toward the hurricane site to help put the utility, power poles up. you see the tree cutting baskets out there. we have 193,000 people without power in florida at this point. think about all of those utility trucks that have made their way to texas in the last two weeks. yes. and they are still there. remember, texas it has not covered, many people have not returned to home and still won t. now here with the state of florida face ago dire situation. the number of people without power in florida jumped dramatically in the last few minutes. up to 193,000 getting the first