EXPERIENCING IT THE SAME
WAYCREWS ARE, WE HOPE YOU'RE
NOT EXPERIENCING AT HOME
EITHER.
WE JUST HEARD FROM CRAIG
THIS IS REALLY A BIG AREA OF
CONCERN AS IRMA HAS TRACKED TO
THE WEST HERE, MIKE CUNGO DROVE
ACROSS ALLIGATOR ALLY TO NAPLES
WHERE HE IS NOW HE SENT US THIS
REPORT A COUPLE MINUTES AGO.
WE'RE ABOUT A QUARTER OF A
MILE ON NAPLES, SOME ON SOME
WINDOWS NOT ON OTHERS YOU HAVE
TO REMEMBER IF THAT LAST MINUTE
SHIFT THAT STORM HAS CAUGHT
RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS
HERE BY SURPRISE WE THINK THAT
MIGHT BE AN ISSUE AS FAR AS
GETTING READY FOR THE STORM
TALKING ABOUT DOWNTOWN BRICKEL,
WE HAVE A MAJOR CRANE STEWED UP
OVER THERE HOPEFULLY THOSE
PIECES ARE TIED DOWN THOSE
COULD BE MISSILES PROJECTILES
WITH THE STORM SURGE AS HIGH,
MORE THAN A QUARTER, THOSE LOW
LYING BUILDINGS COULD BE IN
TROUBLE IN NAPLES SUSTAINED
WINDS BETWEEN 18, 20 MILES PER
HOUR THOSE ARE GOING UP WITH
EACH PASSING FEEDER BAND THAT.
THIS IS MIKE LIVE IN MOBILE
4, ARE YOU STILL IN NAPLES?
WE ARE DRIVING WEST NORTH
NAPLES WE ARE IN DOWNTOWN
NAPLES IN THAT SHOT WE KIND OF
MOVED A LITTLE BIT SO WE GET
SELLEDEL IN WE'RE STAYING AT
THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS, THEY
HAVE A GREAT FACILITY TO HELP
OUT RIGHT NOW A FEW CLOUDS A
LITTLE BIT OF BLUE OUT THERE WE
JUST GOT HIT WITH ANOTHER BAND
WHICH I THINK WAS ACTUALLY
AFFECTING MIAMI AND FORT
LAUDERDALE A LITTLE WHILE AGO
WE ARE HEADING BACK TO THE
BEACH WHICH IS WHERE WE ARE
GOING IN THAT REPORT YOU HEARD
ME TALK ABOUT SOME BUILDINGS
THAT WERE HALF COVERED,
WITSHUTTERS AND PLYWOOD THAT'S
WHAT WE'VE SEEN AS FAR AS
BUSINESSES GO, THERE ARE
MANDATORY EVACUATIONS OUT HERE
WE DID SPEAK TO ONE LOCAL WHO
SAID HE IS STAYING BECAUSE HIS
HOME AND HIS SURF BUSINESS IS
HERE SO HE SENT HIS FAMILY OUT
AND HE IS STAYING IN HE IS
GOING TO HUNKER DOWN WE MET
STORM CHASERS THERE IS A MIX
BETWEEN LOCALS AND THOSE
INTERESTED IN THE STORM STAYING
ON THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA.
THAT STORM CHASER HAD AN
INTERVIEW WITH YOU, ALMOST
UNRECOGNIZABLE IT IS SO DEAD I
KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE
OUT AS YOU CAN SEE, THE NAPLES
DAILY NEWS I'M COORDINATING
WITH THEM, DO YOU HAVE A SENSE
NOW THAT THE STORM IS HEADED
THEIR WAY, THEY DIDN'T AN
ANTICIPATE.
THAT SHIFT HAS THROWN PEOPLE
OFF THIS PLACE REALLY IS A
GHOST TOWN, IT IS EMPTY, WE
CHECK OUT ONE HOTEL THERE WAS
NOBODY EVEN THERE IN THE FRONT
OFFICE SO THIS PLACE IS
DEFINITELY QUIET.
I THINK PEOPLE ARE HEEDING
THOSE WARNINGS AS THINK SHARED
IN THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS FAMILY
MEMBERS, THEY HAD PETS
EVERYBODY WAS STAYING THERE IT
IS GOING TO BE A NICE SHELTER
WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY THEY
ARE EXPECTING THE STORM TO HIT
TOMORROW MORNING, TOMORROW
AFTERNOON THAT'S WHEN IT WILL
GET PRETTY UGLY OUT HERE . A
PET FRIENDLY SHELTER AT THE
NAPLES DAILY NEWS WE'LL PUT
THIS ON THE SCROLL ON THE
BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN.
GIVEN THE FACT THAT THIS STORM
HAS SORT OF COME UNEXPECTEDLY
TO SOUTHWEST FLORIDA YOU SHOWED
US AND IN YOUR TAPED PIECE HOW
THERE WERE SOME BUSINESSES TO
GET THAT DONE IN TIME IF YOU
LOOK AT THE RESIDENTIAL AREA
ARE YOU SEEING SHUTTERS ON
HOUSES THAT HAVE HAD ENOUGH
TIME TO GET THEMSELVES READY IN
THEIR OWN PRIVATE HOMES.
WITH BEING IN FLORIDA
HURRICANES ARE KIND OF THE NORM
HERE SO DEFINITELY SAW A TON OF
HOUSES BOARDED UP, PLYWOOD,
PEOPLE DOING LAST MINUTE PREP A
FEW PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T EXACTLY