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This neighborhood, so that is full of stuff that could get lifted up, projectiles. you see in the yard all of the sticks that are down. you know, people have done what they can, but look over here. if you just look on this person s front porch, they still have furniture out. they have got a television out there. here s a bag of trash. there is a lot of stuff. and then any of these porches, those are going to go in the wind. so you re going to have that all flying around. so the people that are staying, they say we re in concrete block homes, we re okay. but think about the storm surge coming through. and if it s projected to be 6, 8 feet here, that will fill up these first floor homes. many of them aren t elevated and so you really just have a disaster in the making. so, kristen, these folks are in ft. myers and they thought when the storm originally was projected to track up the east coast, they figured, all right, we re going to get some heavy winds and maybe a little bit of heavy ....
Salvage what you can here. and that s going to be the case for the next few days and weeks in columbia, south carolina, kate. we were talking to the mayor last hour, of that town, and he said most people don t have flood insurance. it s inland. you re not on the coast there. what are your friends telling you about how they rebuild, where they go now? you know, we were just talking about that. funny you should ask me that. you re right, things like this don t typically happen in columbia, south carolina. it s land-locked. there are a number of lakes, but never any flooding here. so the folks who do have flood insurance, they don t have the kind of flood insurance that includes everything in the home. so what you have here are a lot of good friends and a lot of good neighbors and family members who are taking people in. we have seen dozens of strangers, in some cases, dropping off food, water, helping people take furniture out, ripping floors up. you re going to see a great deal ....