Enough for fish to be swimming around in it. but this is still a water event happening here. the surge is coming and the next few hours, the highest tide is going to happen here and that s when you re going to see a heck of a lot more water and it s going to become much more dangerous to traverse. i love the way you described the fact that there are fish in the water. they are not supposed to be there where you just showed us. thank you so much for your work out there. it has just been incredible to see. we know tens of thousands of floridians are without power at this moment and so even as the category has weakened, that does not mean the danger has subsided. there s a lot more to come here. no question about that. while the hurricane is sitting coastal areas where historic storm surge, it s also lashing inland cities with heavy rain and powerful wind. we re going to speak with the mayor of lake city florida where the hurricane is passing as we speak. you ve changed. so have we.
County. i m standing near a historic hotel. we re at the intersection of southeast u.s. highway 19. unfortunately, there s water over this roadway and off to my left here, going down u.s. highway 19, which is the major north/south thoroughfare from down to south florida to the state line with georgia, and this road is shut down in major portions in my county right now due to the storm surge that we re seeing. and i was talking with my colonel here a little bit ago talking about what she saw back in 1993, no-name storm, we all saw it in 2016 with hurricane hermine. and you re seeing flood values increasing that will exceed both of those storms. where i m standing right now could potentially be under six feet of water by the time we get to high tied in about five hours from now.
Florida that often does not see hurricanes of this magnitude and the process of intensification is something we need to highlight because it was just yesterday morning that this was a tropical storm. it became a hurricane, category 2, category 3, even category 4, before weakening a bit as it made landfall in florida. now it remains a category 1. even as it leaves florida, the danger still lurks. just to put a button on it. the last time that big bend area saw hurricane-force winds like this, this type of strength was 125 years ago. that really just gives you a sense of just how historic the storm has been. let s stay in the big bend area. two residents who evacuated from horseshoe beach describing the situation at their home. they spoke with cnn affiliate wjxt. take a listen. when did you come here to evacuate? yesterday, when they gave us orders. the cops came door to door.
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