about two hours, and conditions now are what? >> reporter: you know, bill, we had about 30 minutes ago the harshest winds we've seen, and now they've calmed down much. i'm not sure if we have a bit of an eye center over the top of my position about three miles east of the shore in naples because it's slowed down. and we're finally getting to see for the first time in a couple of hours, because our vision was barely at about 50 feet if even that, we couldn't even see across the pond where we were sheltered in place and going out to see if we could see the damage, and literally i can tell you within the 3-400 yard radius of where we are, there isn't a spot where there aren't trees snapped in half ander the cotta shingles -- terra cotta shingles, those red clay shingles you see all over the houses in florida just shattered as if it were little pieces of plastic, but these are 5-8 pound shingles flying all of these