matthew kofuji is meteorologist for the ap my radar speaking to me from port charlotte, florida. he gave me this assessment of the extreme conditions. personally, i've never witnessed the storm at least 1st and this intense store thing right now . conditions are beginning to die down here where we are, which is good to finally have a break in the wind in the rain and everything else. the 1st half of the storm was bad, especially for areas of south the port. charlotte, we're talking naples, we're talking fort myers, or some other high storm surge ever recorded at more than 22 and a half meters was complete. inundated the coastline where i was, we saw significant winds in the order of i'd say, 140 plus kilometers per hour implant this will rainfall, then we got the i ordinarily the 2nd half of the storm is weaker. in this case, it was far stronger from a wind standpoint, we saw wind gusting close to, gosh, 172190 kilometers per hour. we saw absolutely plentiful rainfall to the point where even beyond storm surge, every place that we were trying to drive through or around was an ina