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I can show you, if i shift it north, the homestead area, miami to the north. as you come down the keys here, all of a sudden, you see this black line. this was the center. this is where the center of the hurricane went through. right. the worst of the damage is in big pine. the storm surge was 10 to 15 feet. homes are destroyed. that is where they were going to fly the helicopter down. we ll follow down and they ll give us the pictures. as they progressively go down the chain of islands, we ve also seen marathon, it got hit very hard, too. we ll see all along the path here. again, they re all the way up here, as stephanie was saying. they have a little journey on the helicopter. they ll stop occasionally. their destination is to show us what happened on big pine and also down in marathon. key largo, iisla mirada, it s ....
If it does that it loses power by the time it gets out into the water and heads generally in this direction. so, savannah, charleston, myrtle or up. generally speaking if it stays ore the water by the time it gets there, it s much stronger. the governor talked about traffic. let s look at the traffic. this is google traffic, the florida keys, we ve all seen, this we know green is good, from marathon up into isla mirada, up into key largo, where you make the turn, come down through florida city. andrew came right through here, barrelling, twice as fast as this storm, twice as fast. the eye half as small. so it was moving much faster, didn t have that much rain with it, the eye was tight, not as strng as this storm. the eye half the size in diameter in width. when it came across, florida city and homestead, wiped it out. all of this, just everglades. this is where all that damage ....
The side and into homes, and that s why so many people were told to get out. we ll keep you updated, of course, here as winds continue to blow, the rain continues to come. right now according to the authorities here, i know the track keeps changing, and janice dean s going to give us the latest on that, but they believe we re going to get the dirty side of the storm and maybe the eye could be as close as isla mirada. i still hear popping, this overhang basically has torn loose from the restaurant, guys. mike: adam, how quickly have conditions deteriorated there in key largo? reporter: they started getting bad around or 9:30, 10 p.m., and then we noticed it gradually get worse. you can it s crazy, you can see the bands on tv at home. if you never been in a hurricane, you can see those bands. it s almost like a band will hit, and you ll get a little break, and another band comes a little harder. it s almost like a whip and a whip and a whip. ....