30 to 40-mile-per-hour gusts. a squall just went through but this is where you get isolated power outages. nothing widespread. this isn t like what we saw with ian, a large powerful storm bringing in strong winds throughout a huge area, willie. you know, so we ll watch this perry. eventually this wind gauge will fail as the eye wall comes onshore but we ll have the direct receiptings here shortly. let s go to perry, florida, where we find gabe gutierrez, a town of about 7,000 people. gabe, looks like things have picked up since we saw you an hour ago? reporter: yeah, that s right, willie. as you can see the wind has picked up here. the rain, we ve been constantly getting pounded by the rain and actually just lost power at our hotel. just came back on but it s been flickering for the last 20 minutes or so. that s to be expected as we see these winds really pick up as bill has been mentioning over the coming hours. here in perry about 20 miles inland, so much of the talk surrounding