we're down on the actual river here, the steenhatchie river flows threw this really beautiful charming town of about a thousand people at height of season. this is supposed to be the height of scallop season, so we'd have boats and anglers out here. there's a couple of pontoons that were left but most of the boats pulled out of the harbors here, out of the marinas, put up as high as possible. we're staying at about sort of 28 # feet above sea level, which is considered alpine altitudes in this region, but the worry is, is that storm as it comes in here from the west is going to shove that wall of water up into these lowlands here, and a lot of this construction is not built for a storm surge over ten feet. they had a six foot storm surge here back in 2016, and we talked to folks who rode that out and they were shocked by the speed at which that wall of water just came up and rearranged everything. so violently. the idea that it could be 12 feet around here, really frankly scares them. we met a couple folks who refused to evacuate, they do the calculation at so many floridians do, if i

aishah, if you can believe it, i'm standing in the middle of the road, just behind me here is the steenhatchie river, but it's hard to tell where the river stops and the land starts. mentioned the search-and-rescue operations, the crews that are out now assessing the damage. we have seen it ourselves right here in the last few moments. about ten minutes ago a coast guard helicopter flew overhead. also just saw go by in the river a boat with florida fish and wildfire official, state law enforcement officials. they told us that they launched their boats because they don't know if there's anybody who might need rescuing in this community even though they have not gotten official word from anyone who might need help. but i want to show you just the powerful, not only the flooding that this storm caused but also the powerful winds that took down trees and power lines. here in taylor county, more than 80% of customers are without power and you can see why when you look at the business over here. on top of the floodwaters up to about my waist height inside that building, according to the owner, we ca