that far back. the european model putting it in southern florida. again, when you unroll the entire scenario and where the rain is now and where it was moving, we always said we would never know where landfall was going to be until the storm reached the coast of cuba and started its northern turn. how many press conferences did we have from fema and federal officials from the governor, local mayors, everybody knew this was a great risk of losses life and property. and i think it did. i beg to differ for those who say it wasn t that bad. well, where? tallahassee? pensacola? andrew was only in the state for four hours. we knew when it turned north, still significant, the possibility, thank goodness it made landfall in cuba or we would have had a category 5. but it s still a 4 and a 3. at the exact latitude and longitude that wilma hit as a 3. but that jog to the east of
that, you know, we are seasonal and a lot of our residents don t come back until october, beginning of november. so, and i would say of those that were here, other than the ones that decided they were going to stay, a vast majority has left naples. it s kind of like the ghost town when you drive down when you drive around the city. so you can see that everybody that people were listening to us. rick: mayor, before harvey, the last major hurricane that hit in the u.s. was right around naples with hurricane 12 years ago. not that long ago. the population has changed a little bit. do people remember that and are people comparing this or realizing what s happening because of having experienc experienced that. i will tell you i was here for wilma. i was actually the mayor when wilma hit here. and with wilma, there was this cavalier attitude, you know, the day that wilma was approaching, people were on
coverage haven t. they have only shut down disney world five times. will. abby: orlando always gets hit. i have a lot of friends who live in that area i spent a lot of time living there as well. it s tough because it s hard to get out. pete: it is. make your decision quick. todd: time is running out for sure. well, drones become the eyes to help rescuers see victims. next, a former special ops intel analyst with his effort from hurricane harvey that will now help during irma recovery.
been hardened. we have evacuated citizens to public schools all around fort meyers and the county. have been exlengths in unveiling new shelter opportunities for our citizens in hardened buildings. that actually has worked. including the red sox stadium and we re grateful for that. rick: mayor, you guys were hit very hard by hurricane charlie in 2004. excuse me. so you guys probably have a better grasp of a major hurricane, better than a lot of cities around florida. do people there remember that? do they understand it? can you talk to us a little bit about what that experience was like and give a sense to the viewers what you guys are in for and what other areas of florida are in for now? citizen does remember it. they talk about it a lot. it was a major threat to us. for the sake of a four degree tilt to the north, we
towards the west, that puts it over water for longer again. which allows it potentially to strengthen. this water is incredibly warm. this is a wind forecast. you get the idea of by tonight we have hurricane force winds in the keys. that is probably going to continue there for about 24 hours, hurricane force winds. so that is going to cause that prolonged period of the wind is going to cause incredible damage. this is tomorrow morning, 9:00 a.m. 104 mile-per-hour winds in key west. with this one model i m looking at. it puts the center of this going right over key west that puts all of the storm surge anywhere to the east of it. so we re going to see all of the keys getting storm surge. still some storm surge in miami. although miami i will tell you things are probleg probably looking a little bit better than we thought 24 hours ago. the west side of florida not the case there are a lot of people on the west side of florida waking up this morning and seeing models that have trended far