days to do that stocking up, that s all the better. we are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. i lived through a few hurricanes living in florida 14 years. i remember going through wilma. it s scary. how are the stores handling it? one thing is when we went out to try to stock up, stores empty out quickly. all the water is gone. bread is gone. basics are gone. are stores going to have time to put fresh food and water in before tuesday? we are very optimistic that that will be the case. the stores have already started emptying out. the one thing about a hurricane is before the hurricane, it s nice weather. if we get a couple more days of nice weather, that should enable the major stores to stock up. again, what i don t want to happen is for residents to get complacent and say, it s never going to happen.
continuing to get the message out to residents that they need to prepare for this as a significant weather event. they need to stock up on the essentials, water, food, medicine, gasoline. if we have a couple of extra days to do that stocking up, that s all the better. we are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. i lived through a few hurricanes living in florida 14 years. i remember going through wilma. it s scary. how are the stores handling it? one thing is when we went out to try to stock up, stores empty out quickly. all the water is gone. bread is gone. basics are gone. are stores going to have time to put fresh food and water in before tuesday? we are very optimistic that that will be the case. the stores have already started emptying out.
it could still drop a lot of rainfall because it s already saturated. the feeder bands will hit it and then that core of all that rain moves up to the north. there s still a lot of changes. we re going to see that. because it s shifting east, we maas may see some heavy rainfall. irma was such a mess, people were traveling from one side of the state to the other because the track kept changing. we ll see what happens in the next couple of model runs. thank you, tom, with the latest forecast. let s head up to florida s east coast to the city of sebastian where martin savage is. residents i take it are stocking up, boarding up, sound the alarm of the danger and it s a real danger from dorian. yeah, they are, wolf. in fact, they re in the final stages of this home. this is the last piece to be put in place, the front door. yoou you ve got to get every single opening closed up because any weakness means it will be exposed and the home itself is a
unique circumstance. reporter: officials are confident none of the levees in new orleans will be breached and the pumps were put to test this week when the underground drainage pumps were briefly floodi flooding over streets and underpasses. we believe it will be able to with stand this storm. reporter: barry is also expected to dump anywhere from 10 to 15 inches of rain and that is forming mandatory evacuations in some low-lying areas. tropical storm barry is a dangerous and life-threatening storm. reporter: but despite the evacuation order, some residents are preparing to ride out the storm, stocking up on sandbags and supplies. i expect some tidal surge and maybe a little flooding. i don t see no point in having to leave. reporter: president trump has declared a state of emergency for louisiana. and the governor has activated 3,000 national guard troops to assist with the destruction this storm is expected to bring and
their sidewalks, in their driveways, and some of them are in the streets. we re asking everyone to drive safely, be careful, watch for these people and understand that we are doing the very best we can. it is not an impossible task to take care of all of this, but it is going to be a longer task than we thought the other day. seismologists we ve been hearing from have warned more aftershocks are likely to occur. and that has prompted the ridgecrest police chief to issue a warning to all of those living in the area. when the stores are open and things like that, make sure that you re stocking up, just in case, that we have something bigger than we had today, ands, you know, stuff starts crumbling and these stores can t get back open. we need to make sure that and