state are seeing mayor water events, as well. we do know that lee 911 call centers are being rerouted, those are down so-calls are being answered and teams are in the people that are calling are being noted and then those local first responders will deploy as soon as safe to do so. now, obviously, local by in large, for rescue and put their own folks at risk. we know there are folks who are in the really high risk zone a that haven t evacuated. some called in and those people are being logged and there will be a response but it s likely going to take a little time for this storm to move forward so that it s safe for the first responders to be able to do. we are getting reports but it s
frightening. how are people dealing with this and processing? this? i disopsd by one of the shelters. the individual are, you know, largely vulnerable individuals that had to be evacuated because of some, you know, they live in a zone a which is what we evacuated first. homes on the waterfront or on the barrier islands or those living on mobile homes or rvs or those individuals who got evacuated because of living in an assisted living facility that was in one of these zones. or it was just, you know, people that had nowhere else to go. they couldn t just go to a friend s house or couldn t leave the state. so, it was it s a mix of people but they are definitely safer in these sites, these shelters than they would be staying at home. i m glad they are there. jesse: i have been to sarasota a few times. it s a beautiful city. tons of great restaurants. great shopping.
the news we got just over the last 15 minutes from the national hurricane center is that sustained speeds of two miles an hour short of a category 5 storm. tell me how that changes the dynamic. it changes the dynamic because if anyone did not evacuate, they are in trouble. they are. their life is now being threatened. if you know someone who has just been, your dad, your grandpa, your uncle who doesn t want to go, zone a, zone b, they need to go now. some places around zone c may be wanting to get away, especially if you re in one of those river chamts where the water is going to get shoved up into those rivers, those streams r those creek, fort myers. there may not be one spot of dry land in naples at all. the entire town may be covered
chose to stay, you mean. chose to stay, even though they are in evacuation areas. do you have any sense as to how many people that is? i know you are doing a survey. that s voluntary in terms of who wants to participate in that. i spoke with the charlotte county sheriff, probably ground 0 for the landfall and their view the vast, vast majority of people in that zone a did in fact evacuate. now, they did have, they have an island community where they had 31 people that were told, were offered the transit, and they just said that they wanted to stay and shelter-in-place, and so i know a lot of those barrier islands communities, the counties discontinued services so they were incentivized to get to a more comfortable environment, but some people made the decision to stay and they, you know, the local officials were not going to grab them by the shirt collar and drag them out of their own house. so they did that, and look. we have been saying that if you
that water out, and as it approaches closer, all that water comes with it, right? and there you go. it empties out first. then behind it a rising wall of water. what do folks do in that situation? if they re experiencing it, and that water is rising so quickly, it looks like the prepass to a tsunami there. well, in this particular scenario you described, we have called for evacuations for zone a and zone b. folks should be gone right n nowp people are being warned that