what happens to evacuees if they decide to say. where he said about that. just taking a look at the island, residents and businesses alike, i venture to say a third of the folks are left, everybody is boarding up. yes, they re taking this very seriously. they know how intense this storm is. reporter: when you say mandatory evacuation and they don t leave, what does that mean to folks that say? essentially, you are on your own, don t expect a first respond tore come to your aid, what that does is it puts two of our first responders at risk. at that time been very clear. we have been unequivocal about that. reporter: yeah, that s joe benson, he has been here a while. i want to show you this, to let you know what is going on, can you sew the waves beginning to build. those are big breakers out there. i was out there body surfing. it wasn t this rough at all, also you look up, see the clouds up there, those are the high, thin serous clouds, that s the
michelle, behind me, i don t know if you can see this, there are some boats obviously and then these big cumulus clouds. that s what everything was earlier today. it was all cumulus clouds. they re gone now and we ve got these serous clouds. this is sort of the far edge of this hurricane. when you are at the board there and you re referring to the hurricane, you re using a counter clockwise motion. as this hurricane maybe heads south of where we are, maybe even toward myrtle beach, people say, good, it s going to different areas. in a hurricane if you re at the northeast of it, you re actually in pretty big danger. the northeast is the worst part to be. if you look at where it makes landfall, you have to look to the north and east. that s where the damage is going to be, where it s kind of pushed on there. with hurricanes that s where you see the most damage. all right, michelle, thank you very much, michelle grossman for us.