minutes ago and said can you go live? i say heck yeah. we're busy right now. the air force reserve, we're just crushing it. we're making it happen. >> shepard: what are you learn something. >> you can see, this is an extremely powerful storm. it's going to be the benchmark storm for the next decade. katrina, as you well know and i know first hand, it's been a benchmark for the long time but now looks like irma will be the replacement for it. >> shepard: for me as far as destruction, there was hurricane hugo in the carolinas. that just snapped millions of trees and turned them to projectiles. and then hurricane andrew. with the very tight eye and small area that it crossed. when it went through cutler ridge, homestead, levelled everything. but it wasn't that big around. this thing though, it's got a little bit of everything to