miami, was going to be bearing much of the brunt of the storm, those evacuation orderers, evacuation zones, have they changed at all? no, they are still in effect because obviously the it s a volatile storm. we are not going to take this lightly. things can change in the drop of a dime. one of the things that we have to remember is not just winds and rain, the storm surge, the areas can be affected by the storm surge, that remains in effect right now. julie: we hate to talk about storm surge and this one is i mean, record breaking as far as the state of florida not only is it two times the size of andrew but the storm surge here 5 to 10 feet putting many coastal areas, both west and east coast under water and water is one of the most deadly, if not takes account for about 80% of deaths after a hurricane. what do you tell the people who live anywhere along the east or
citizens of port st. lucy have tone fantastic job and going through last-minute preps and getting rid of basketball goals on the street and making sure that there s debris arthel: let s go back to evacuation orderers, you have some areas under partial evacuation, some under mandatory evacuation, why are there different orderers. well, this morning our county st. lucy county, voluntary evacuation because but anyone out there but we still expect to have hurricane and tropical
the phone. thank you very much for talking to us. a lot of people have actually manage today get out of miami, others are going inland and getting out of evacuation zones, once they are there, they cannot leave after 7:00 o clock tonight. tell us about the evacuation orderers and also these these curfews are in effect. the evacuation order was ordered by mayor and those came into effect over the last two days. we have been working hard to help the citizens in affected areas to get out of the area and get into shelter. as far as the curfew, i believe some of the municipalities have issued curfew. miami-dade has not issued a curfew at this time. julie: okay, for those who did not get out of mandatory evacuation zones, those mandatory evacuation zones were set up 48 hours ago, this is back when the hurricane was looking like it was going to be heading a bit more east ward and so that the impact in miami beach, not to be confused with the city of miami, downtown
safety. are you hearing about rescues? what are you hearing about rescues? well, there was a warning earlier in the week. fortunately the forecast was that the storm was going to be bad. the president got on tv the insight before the storm hit to warn people and heed the evacuation orderers and leave their homes. a lot of people did do just that. but of course in any disaster like this you will have the people who refused to leave their homes and have to call for help. we are hearing of those people who are having to call for help. of course, the communication situation is going to be difficult for those people to reach out for help. and those are halt a lot of the people that authorities will be concerned about. and along the coastline, the video you re describing there, we re hearing of fishermen who depend on these boats for livelihoods and their boats have
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