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Ryan todd is enduring the wind of one of the outer bands of the hurricane. he s in west palm beach on the east coast of florida. bryan, what are you going through there? well, jake, we re inside the window now of one of the most intense hurricane force activity we were probably going to get for the next several hours. and we re also getting pop up tornadic activity. if you look behind me, the intensy of the wind. it looks like that palm could come down. the palm fronds along with the coconuts have become projectiles. and we re going to walk a little bit. these street signs really wobbling. and now we re getting pelted with a really heavy rainfall. i just talked to the mayor of ....
And the streets look like a river. that surge has arrived. it absolutely has. here s the map that i made three days ago. what we expect with a 6 foot surge. all of downtown miami will be covered in this blue color that you see there. that s the water depth if the water goes to 6 feet. right now it s 5 1/2. that s where the water is at this exact point and still going up. berman, the water where you are obviously the water the deadliest force in all of this. as horrific as the winds are, it is the storm surge that ends up taking the most lives in hurricanes such as these. and where you are, you re seeing the water surge. yes, you re seeing the water rise slowly, jake. and it s been rising slowly over the last several hours. what chad was talking about right there is just where it over flowed some areas where it came up and rushed down onto brickell boulevard. that s 5 1/2 feet. as chad was saying they ve been ....
In brickell, water waist-deep in some areas there. and starting to flood the streets. the wind just pushing the water up into the streets. and behind me i don t think if you can see right now, the jetsties. the water lapping up the dock right there. there are all these docks you can t see. and the water creeping up ever so slowly here. the other story here in downtown miami is the wind. all over getting reported wind gusts of 100 miles per hour in the tops of high rises. and that now has had a consequence. this crane collapsed or cracked depending on how you want to call it at 300 boulevard. the boom has sort of fallen off the rest of the crane, appears to be resting on top of this building under construction right now. we don t know if it s still attached in any way by cables or anything else. but there are dangling a cables around there. city officials telling people ....
Unfortunately, you can also see a few people trying to walk through this water. it s not recommended, of course. but for people who are familiar, this is the area where the grocery store publix is. we ve been trying to get the best position out here, jake, to show you the ponding and the surge. you can also see lots of water on this end. it a lot of the skyline from miami you can see also here. a lot of these residential buildings. but this is a huge problem, of course for miami because these roads are ponding. they are receiving a lot of surge from the ocean. i m about three to four blocks from the ocean, and you can see that ponding is occurring, surge is coming through. and the 16 counties in south florida have a system of about 2,100 canals, 2,000 levies that protect this city. ....
the wind is picking up. the gusts are measured in excess of 70 miles an hour, the rain has been constant. this is what the vets would call the snap crackle and pop phase of the hurricane. you re starting to hear these eerie sounds as branches and part of the structures start to give away. you here the crackle of the transformers as they start to fail, and you re starting to hear the sounds of the trees falling around you. and it s a little eerie because you have to figure out where these sounds are coming from so you can assess the risk of where they ll fall. and the real problem is as you were just hearing from chad, we re still on the measuring blows phase on the west coast. the water here has been sucked out as well. took a drive down to the south side, a few streets this way and the water has been receded ....