a few hurricanes as governor. we had irma last year. one of the reasons why is we had more time, more people evacuated. six million people evacuated. we had more time. harvey just happened and people saw the footage of harvey. this happened so fast. i went up and down the coast doing events trying to get people to evacuate. people don t realize the deadliness of this storm surge because we just don t see it. we saw irma down the keys last year. i tried to explain to people what happens. it comes in, completely fills in your house and sucks everything out. it s just you can t survive it. people just have never seen that. but i think part of it is it happened so fast. but now this is horrible. now our job is to search for everybody, rescue everybody, get everybody the resources they need and we ll recover. we are a very resilient state.
bit further towards the west. there will be maybe some rainfall. that is if these tracks don t change drastically, which they have as we have seen with previous hurricanes like we saw harvey in texas. like we saw irma in florida. here we see in puerto rico a woman just outside of san juan who is trying to clean up the mud and debris that inundated her home. there you can see some household items just kind of piled up outside homes there, just in the street. looks like there is still some standing water there. so, maria has cast this wide devastation on its journey across the caribbean and into the turks and caicos, into the bahamas, and we can t avoid looking at this. the gfs and the european model in near agreement. the gfs has it edging right near the north carolina coast, and natalie and george, it looks like maybe some of those the