i notice these a snowbird city, but about two thirds are believed to have evacuated.at on the good side? >> that's good, people recognize the potential problems. i think the storm surge now will be our biggest threat. the wind will be damaging, but not to our structures. we have good construction standards. the problem we'll have is this small town has about 20 trees, and those tree are going to go down, then block the roads and they'll rip up water and sewer lines. we'll provide water and suer for as long as possible. and then restore the system to make sure that people have that vital service. >> quick note, the governor has a home here in naples, but that wasn't driving his concern. he's saying it's uniquely vulnerable to storm surge, and before the broadcast i went down to the gulf side. the marina already looked like it cou it had as much as it could take. >> there's no doubt this is this is a very serious threat. we hope that anybody anywhere near the beach has moved inlid and at least on a second floor. >> you can tell you've been doing it 40 years, when that g

news here is the mayor says most of the 19,000 people that live here year-round, this is a big snowbird cityinter, so obviously this is the off-season for that part of the population, but the good news is the mayor believed about two-thirds of the people evacuated from here. but there's still thousands that could be in harms way and what came through here was a record in terms of we'll have chad myers come in and tell me, what did we experience in terms of significance of storms statistics? >> you had a gust to 141 and that's going to stack up, you know, extremely well to any other gust except of course for andrew which was completely off the charts there. but for the west side and for a west side landfall in incredible wind gusts along with such a wet, wet eye wall, here is your rain gauge, your tidal gauge and all the like for naples, chris. you were down here at about 2 1/2 feet below where you should be for the tide. now you're about 2 1/2 feet above where you should be for the tide and the water is still going up and going up rapidly. i've been trying to figure out how much surge came i

this is a little bit of a snowbird city. snowbirds, the people come during the winter. so this is the off-season so there aren't as many people here, but of the 19,000 or so the city manager was worried about, believes as many as two-thirds according to the mayor may have left in advance. that's really important. here's somebody coming down the road right now. it's not something you see too much, but i think they're one of us. i think those folks were media going down the road. you've seen ualmost nobody. that's a very good sign. you haven't seen people out. you haven't seen awkward spectating or anything like that. we've been told the police are keeping people away from the waterfronts. that's key. chad myers tells a harrowing tale of what happened in lake okeechobee some years ago where the water was gone. people went running out there. just out of fascination, and collecting fish and stuff like that exposed, and then the water came back, and it was a lethal, a deadly event, and god forbid, we don't want to see anything like that and they're trying to keep people away

city. down here this is a trailer park that was not transient. these are not snowbirdscally people that lived here year round. it was a neighborhood. it's now 80% completely torn down and destroyed. a hundred trailers, only maybe 20 are salvageable. one of the men we talked to who actually rode the storm out next door in a concrete house describing it as absolutely harrowing. he says he's going to rebuild, period. take a listen. >> my front porch came to here, my trailer started at the other side of this slab, so it started here. and that's how far the frame actually moved -- >> reporter: where's the trailer now? >> that's the frame of the trailer. the rest of the trailer is in the wind. >> reporter: now, the hurricane winds here not the 130 down there at cudjoe key, more like 120 miles per hour. still harrowing, and the storm surge anywhere between 5-8 feet, pushed all of this debris up this off the ocean as well as every trailer, everything that was inside, lives lost, homes, memories, everything. just absolutely tragic. david? david: the shot of that guy standing on