at 50 feet a second. i bet that would hurt. it does. reporter: first the old advice, when a storm is coming, tape up your windows. i have covered dozens of hurricanes and people always have their windows taped up. does this help? no, not at all. reporter: just watch. the tape on the window. did not work. as you can see the impact went completely through. you have larger pieces that can do real damage if it hit someone in the face. reporter: how about those plywood boards? back at the lab, as you can see the results better but experts tell us wood provides inconsistent protection and could allow the window to break. and those special metal storm shutters. they hold out better than wood, but the safest of all? there are windows that you can buy that withstand winds of 200 miles an hour. this one they are testing at 150. it will bow but not break. we test it. experts call it high impact glass. as you see, the laminate did
storm surge. whether the dunes that protect this island community from the ocean, will be over flowed by any of the storm surge. already, on the other side of this barrier island, which separates the atlantic ocean from the sound side of the island there s storm surge that is overlapping the shore. there s already about a foot of standing water in some of the lower lying areas of this island community. over here you can see precautions that business owners have taken. in particular, the hotel where we are staying this morning they put up plywood boards to cover-up large picturesque windows that provided beautiful views of the ocean. just to prevent flying debris from breaking any of the glass. as far as the mandatory evacuations, it appears most
everybody is, you know, tying down outdoor furniture, even putting it in pools to keep it from blowing away but the tree limbs and that s the biggest concern is flying debris. they expect a storm surge and so at the around the airport as you said they ve been putting sand bags to try to keep the water from getting into the airport which is closed now. okay. so, clearly. everyone who is on that island or that group of islands, they re going to have to ride this out. there is nowhere to go. correct. okay. yeah. i should think. do you get a sense everyone is taking this seriously? very seriously. the bermuda weather service works closely with the national hurricane center and the forecast was early enough that everybody has been preparing for days. they ve been people have been flocking to the hardware stores, buying flash lights, batteries. i know i ve got my bath tubs and buckets filled with water in case we lose power. and shutters are the houses are shuttered and as you
storm surge. whether the dunes that protect this island community from the ocean, will be over flowed by any of the storm surge. already, on the other side of this barrier island, which separates the atlantic ocean from the sound side of the island there s storm surge that is overlapping the shore. there s already about a foot of standing water in some of the lower lying areas of this island community. over here you can see precautions that business owners have taken. in particular, the hotel where we are staying this morning they put up plywood boards to cover-up large picturesque windows that provided beautiful views of the ocean. just to prevent flying debris from breaking any of the glass. as far as the mandatory evacuations, it appears most