the center of town and the winds are real, really heavy. blowing. i don t know what they re gusting to. i looked out the front door and the neighbor s beach trampoline blew on the front porch. wow. just on the front porch. good afternoon. we have trees uprooted on the we re following a devastation of side of my house. across the street from me oak hurricane michael. it s made landfall. it s the strongest storm to hit limbs that s fell and one s on a the florida panhandle and it s still lashing the gulf coast house. with winds measured up to 155 my neighbors shed is demolished. miles an hour. those are sustained winds. i think some water issues. there are gusts yet higher than busted pipe. i can t help him right now. that. it made landfall just short two we were just talking to ken graham at the national hurricane miles an hour of category 5. center who said that he just measured or winds measured where sg we have correspondence you are at 106 miles per hour. throughout the st
around me attached to a that some houses are built on off of sea level but as you building. i know you re a pro at this but said, a lot of the areas hit be very careful. right now are poor areas, lower you have high winds and you have income areas and if your house got the idea that there could be wasn t destroyed you had no tornadoes around there. reason to rebuild. right. remember, what we saw after trees are coming down and none of the codes prepared for oak hurricane katrina was a lot of places along the gulf coast and pine trees slicing through rebuilt to code but a lot of the roof and still very dangerous situation. places didn t. even with the better codes, this is east of this. never meant we wouldn t have mobile west was involved in damaged. just less damages and repair hurricane katrina and if there was rebuilding to be done it was done but there s a lot of your home versus losing buildings around there that just everything. can t manage a storm this the focus on the safety
worst-case scenario kind of fema administrator under storm for the florida panhandle as the national weather service president obama, craig fugate. is saying. the wind gusts really starting to pick up in the past hour to craig has a deep understanding the point unsafe for us to be of storms and storms in this region. craig, let s start with outside. we drove over here. along the way we could really see the trees, the debris start 155-mile-a-hour winds. what does that mean to structures in the area? to fly around. how serious is that for i m going to move away, closer to the wall here so my cameraman buildings? well, unfortunately, this is scott can show you the trees a very rural, low income area in behind me and how many of them are starting to break apart. many places with older mobile now, i want to give you a sense of where i am now. homes not built to current codes and expect a lot of structural where this is. over here to my right, that is damage, but also, all the trees coming
our colleagues, things look rainfall, as well. rough. i was watching the broadcast and where that broadcast was, now that we are in it, conditions deteriorate and don t port st. joe, a gust of 106 forget the backside of the storm will be a mayor concern. miles per hour. that was about 106 miles per hour winds in the video and wanted to equate the values to and goes down to st. pete and what the viewers were seeing. that s great. tampa seeing water levels that 6 1/2 foot of inundation of could overflow the roads there as you know. you know, there s a connection between tampa and st. pete is a apalachicola and the pressure down to 919. here s the latest information. strengthening all the way in. could get washed over as a top three to four pressures of a result. thank you so much. u.s. landfall hurricane and very strong and seeing the eye wall craig, i believe you re still with us. make it on shore really close to just moments ago dylan was mexico beach and the highest winds ar
gassing. people repairing and a lot of people left. i would say 50% left. 50% stayed. every neighbor i know within a quarter smile here. is there. did those people have time to prepare their homes, board them up, make their way to the grocery store? without power and given the strength of this storm, people will be stuck at home for quite sometime. they did. even though it came on fairly quickly, we were anticipating a tropical storm or, you know, a category 1 because in the panhandle you can never underestimate the wobble of a storm coming this way. so most people i do think had plenty of time to prepare. we have generators. we have window unit acs. as a matter of fact in the past ten minutes my husband plugged in the generator and window unit ac and a lamp on and an ac unit going for now and that s what s going to sustain us probably for the next three or four days.