flying around. this is catastrophic. we are looking at winds gusting past 120 right now definitely should not be outside. shannon: hurricane michael giving a powerful blow good evening. the weather has changed dramatically but the damage assessment is just getting started 91 percent of the county is in the dark tonight why they are in the mandatoryww curfew through tomorrow morning because there is so many power lines down and debris also the boil water order in effect the panhandle took the toughest punch it has ever seen.
ensuring every critical health care facility has a generator, has dedicated main tans, and has dedicated fuel distribution. there are over 50 generators been installed in these critical facilities not just heblt but moving into the other facilities like schools. they have 200 plus on hand and another 300 on the way to the island. that s interim measure, stabilize the system, and make sure key services are restored. in addition talking about water, about 75% is where we are in terms of potable water. that s out of the tap. there is a boiled water order across the island. but to fill that other gap of 25% of folks that don t have tap water, there is, again, there is dedicated trucks, tanker trucks and bottled water services. so trying to identify the challenges and fill the gaps in that near term plan while we continue to restore the longer term infrastructure problems.
expect in terms of flooding? well, we ve been, they ve been reporting that all of the coastal areas are flooded. hollywood, fort lauderdale beach, that we have lots of flooding over in those areas, especially in the areas where we evacuated people east of federal highway and u.s. 1. we are experiencing a high volume of flooding. sandra: and what are you hear anything terms of your residents and how they re faring at this moment? so people are reporting that they re without power, of course, but most people for the most part are okay. they re safe and sheltered in place, and that s what we that was our goal with the early evacuation and with the curfews. we were just hoping that they would heed e the warning. heed the warning. sandra: mayor, as of a little while ago, a boiled water order was put out for the town of davy, i believe in your county, a system wide, precautionary boiled water order. what can you tell us about that? so right now we have five cities out of of the 31
fell over here. this is a town of about 70,000 people give or take a few thousand and about 24,000 of them now without power. there is no power in much of the town. we went driving around today. you had tree limbs down, entire trees split in half, some of them blocking some of the roadways here. people that did leave for hurricane harvey are being told by city officials please do not come back. they are trying to assess all of the damage here. they re trying to remove all of the debris and all of the trees that are now blocking so many of the roadways here. also another issue, water. the entire town is under a boil water order. there are five water towers here in town that supply water to victoria. they re having trouble pumping water into those towers. that s a secondary issue here. there s a need to conserve some of the water in town because of that issue. the city says it s working. i m trying to get those pumps back up and plating.
they are lit up. just north lit up, just north of us you can see the sky line bind us, but there are power out ijts rg reported to nec which is the electrical prior here. also here in corpus christi we are under a precaution area boil water order, the cityish sugar that late tonight because they say hurricane harvey has had destructive effects here and has potentially affected the water supply. as a precaution they want everyone to boil their water. that could last for days. we re going to be watching this as the next few hours, as the sun comes up, and to see whether or not rescue crews can get out there and see what the situation is. mya we ll check back with you shortly. on the phone we have a mother of a 3-year-old and a 9 month old. the family chose not to evacuate