let me turn to david frehlich, communications director of naples, florida. good to hear from you. this was not supposed to hit from you as hard but that westward shift meant you are directly in irma's path. are you ready? >> good morning. yes, we are. we are as prepared as we can -- well, as anyone can prepare for something like this, i guess. but i can tell you that oddly enough a couple of weeks ago we had actually had sort of a mini mock simulation of this whole type of thing. certainly we didn't plan for something like this, but all of our teams from the county really worked on a smaller scale of something like this and all of our people here are prepared to help if the storm comes through. >> do you have a good sense at this point, david, of how many people actually left the city, how many people are in shelters and how many may be hunkering down in danger's way? >> the first part, unfortunately the storms that went through houston really was a wake-up call for florida, certainly the folks in naples. when all of this started and you could see that it was starting to move a li

let me turn to david frehlich, communications director of naples, florida. good to hear from you. this was not supposed to hit from you as hard but that westward shift meant you are directly in irma's path. are you ready? >> good morning. yes, we are. we are as prepared as we can -- well, as anyone can prepare for something like this, i guess. but i can tell you that oddly enough a couple of weeks ago we had actually had sort of a mini mock simulation of this whole type of thing. certainly we didn't plan for something like this, but all of our teams from the county really worked on a smaller scale of something like this and all of our people here are prepared to help if the storm comes through. >> do you have a good sense at this point, david, of how many people actually left the city, how many people are in shelters and how many may be hunkering down in danger's way? >> the first part, unfortunately the storms that went through houston really was a wake-up call for florida, certainly the folks in naples. when all of this started and you could see that it was starting to move a li