From the New York Times. I Michael Varvara, this easy today, hurricane remark moors into Florida, where in the week Hurricane Harvey, an apocalyptic forecast forced one of the largest evacuations in american history, its Monday September eleven yesterday at noon, I signed a declaration of emergency in the city of my arm

four days, Hurricane Irma was expected to strike my army with catastrophic force, prompting massive evacuations that cleared out much of the city? If you ve been ordered to evacuate, you need to leave now, do not wait. Event he wakes up tonight, not in our need to go right now by Saturday, governor Scott had ordered newly six million people to leave their homes. Most of them on floored is EAST coast, but then, when Hurricane Irma projected path shifted west to the Gulf Coast, city of Tampa, overnight thousand

began, to take the threat more seriously and started scrambling. The storm changed course heading four floored is West Coast. Tampa mayor Bob Buckthorn is with US mayor buckthorn. How prepared are you and the city of temper? I never thought I would quote MIKE Tyson insane. You. Everyone has a plane till I get punished in the face. Well we're about to be punished in the face tomorrow. So we're gonna see how this plan holds up. In Miami Jean eyes and had ignored the evacuation orders height keen. It's me cold bar borrow from the New York Times hurry you I'm fine. Thank you told me, you would be calling yes and thank you for letting us give. You will take a little louder. Yes, I said thank you for letting us give you a call. What is it you want to know

I want to know how you're doing I'm doing fine, your except for no air conditioning and no no electricity hold. Those are too big ones where it now that I've had that before so Nigeria is it pitch black in your apartment. Can you see anything now cannot pitch black dark with. First of all, I have a lantern here, and I have several small flashlights that I can use. You always have to prepare. How many hurricanes do you think you have been through in Miami honestly? I don't remember, but a lot

you. So I stayed for what was it Andrew, okay? Well, that was a there was another big decision right. I've been here are the past seventy years, while we always right- and I have always staid and my home- and never had too much trouble- and this building that I man, which is almost forty years and I figured that the building of this size would be easier to stay and then going to a shelter with so many people. He figured the worse, it could happen set out on a chair in the hallway, where there are no windows, he only two windows,

I was concerned about was the one in my bedroom and the one in my day anywhere on wages for the silly floor, and I don't have any shutters on that. So you your grandson and my colleague Michael you telling us that we should call you, and he very now when I got em murder, or he. He very lovingly said that, after pleading with you over and over again to leave. This was his quote: I've given up trying to reason with her. So I figured at least I can put her to work that that's exactly what they told me. They enter the times and Michael. I do anything for anyway that leave, except that one thing right. So it's about seven thirty p m on Sunday,

meaning- and it sounds like parts of my army are flooding pretty significantly yeah. I am not so much about the loading as I don't go out anyway. That doesn't make much difference to me and I'm up on the fifth floor. Ok, and if I were flooded up to the fore and body would be a big trouble here. I made her boy bags before the electricity went off. That was smart and I always have been a broader richer like anyway me too, and then you can stuff, like Danes, tuna fish, he whatever. If anything, bad. I always have something to eat, and you said you were you ever a home health aid there. So it sounds

if something happened, you're not alone right good. At the right I dont, like I told you how I was he did, but you should tell you should do you should tell the listeners. Ninety arab igniting Forster Ass, remarkable how it's done. It is like a faint think. I am because they saw her. My marble? Do you think that your age has something to do with? Why you're not willing to leave that age? Permit you to turn to be stubborn at my age, because I went through so many when I was much younger my my place may that long ago I regardless what am I said? Well, it's. It sounds like as media or logic.

Feed has it that that you you'd you kind of lucked out because the storm that was supposed to him. I am even went west in its now going to places like four Myers and Naples, the other side of the peninsula. Right, that's right! We it's like you got lucky with the direction of the storm. Yes, yes, we did get lucky, I dont know how much damage is done outside, because I'm not looking at that right now. It's dark. They can't find anything, and I have made some centres on my sliding glass doors and I'm not gonna open that. So I think what happened my morning while I wish you the best of luck tonight and I hope, when you wake up and you open those doors, that there is as little damages as possible gene and I'm really grateful for your time, and I am glad that you are safe, and I want to report to Michael that you are doing

Well, thank you. So much by an hour later, I reached antenna Le Gian Antonio on other side of the state hello internet. It's Michael bar borrow from the New York Times. Do you hear me I guess we should tell me where you are you're gonna sell you're in a cell phone in the middle of the hurricane. So it's did, I shouldn't know, shouldn't be a surprise that occasionally, the the connection might get a little a little dodgy referred here. Ok, so you can hear me now. You're, taking good good, So until where am I reaching you right now, I'm in temper Florida and what kind of a building, or even I met their way through the scenario

so you're in a hotel only has three floor. That's pretty low here, so so who are you with in this hotel, my parents and here my eighty eight Europe down my eighty five, your mama, my sister's here visiting me, also have a ten year old son, my tat Jason, your husband sue, you know, you're right in the path of Hurricane Irma and from what I understand you did everything in your power to try to me sure that you wouldn't be in the path of the storm. So take me, through the past few days and kind of

call me understand where you started and how you ended up in Tampa. Well, I live in to Miami Beach. We were advise that we would be evacuated and Wednesday. We we rushed intact everything up and we left that evening and we headed towards Naples and we stop there and spent the night there and the next morning we were told that we be safe for free.

Keep adding. Nor so we went to tamper with that would be safe over here, and why do you think you would be safe at that point? It just look like the storm was was coming nowhere here, but they kept on saying that you're, my Emmi evacuate Miami that remind me what was it was a difficult actually make a true. Yes, that is correct. Friend was some very dangerous. You concerned you're not gonna, make it to the next, but your cash that you haven't. You got the supermarkets cost girl insistent nightmare. There were about people helping each other out, but then there are a lot of people and fortune

Lee that you know work panic, though they feared and you don't people fear they do stupid things and other cutting line studies. I write in my hotel that I'm in my now, where the hotel has had gasoline and his car and they both in his car and they took a gas toys. Yeah filling water people is a panic as a state of pact, So how long did you have to search to find a hotel room left Naples Thursday? We got here fighting we subterfuge hotels and they didn't have anything, but we did the most of it on the telephone. I would say we called above knew about five nice man, you could see on the internet there are sold out. Does nothing to bail about anyone anywhere near gave the boy, and I mean this hotel is packed with people but not without anywhere.

Nightmare at what point. Did you realize that, in fleeing Miami? In and of getting away from the storm. You were actually through no fault of your own, just a feat in twists and turns of this. You are actually going towards the storm. Well, we realise that on Friday, actually we're little concerned. My sister has the very first thing she says on my guy. This storm is checked get away from it. So why did you decide to stay in Tampa after you learned that the storm had had shifted in that direction? Well, because at this point there would be no guarantee that I would be safe to leave to go someplace out if I keep getting north. This is gonna. Come follow me, so I did the same thing here. I did have a lot of

but my friends call me, and you know, tell me that they would going to be heading back to Miami, but then they started talking about the tornado, watches in Miami, and I said to myself and my sister made the decision, also that you know it's going to stay when it's over with So just quickly, what's the scene there? Now, if you can see its argument look at the windows now and then what are you seeing? Whether their flesh out the window is because everything you know like up? I'm it's raining very heavily here. The winds are picking the lights and our own flight. Third, by their reporting that little the night for the boy it's gonna be bad. I think that our not an hour It's ok, I'm really barrier internet didn't do you have any idea what to expect in North Miami, where your house's I'm afraid I've found at alone

don't tell me, I M is under water and a lot of areas and the water my area flights for any time at reigns in the Sunday times. I can only imagine no into no. Thank you very much for talking with me and I hope you in your family, your safe there tonight in temper. Thank you so much Several hours later, I called my colleague just pick good. Just you have been reporting

tamper, as the city quite suddenly found itself directly in the path of Hurricane Irma. What is the mood than like over the course of the day? It has been very anxious. Camphor is a city that is very vulnerable to her came. It jumps out into the bay its low lying. A lot of its infrastructure is right on the coat and it hasn't been hit with a major hurricane directly in ninety year. Well, go officials here were very anxious. They were play for a disaster on the scale of something that the city hasn't seen in a very long time is the room. This consistently and steady at over forty miles per hour, the table police Department in the Temple far deportment cannot and will not come out and get you I can put the men and women who serve us so bravely in harm's way they will be sheltering just like everyone else will be until

the wind subside and then we can come and get you do not nine one one if the wind is blowing consistently beyond forty miles per hour, because we are not going to be able to come and help you, people were being turned away at some shelter is being held up. There were people in temper who had evacuated here from the EAST coast and suddenly found themselves in the her that this thing, and so there was a lot of anxiety in just one. Our city officials expecting now we're talking you're around midnight, and it feels like there's been a change. It does feel like there's been a change

storm has been moving over land and it has been weakening so serious issues who this morning were envisioning. A disaster are now talking about something that calls very short of what they had been expecting. I spoke with Tom Forward the keys of Camp Fire rescue any emergency manager of the city, and he taught me through what they were expecting to find in the morning. The type of damage that we're looking for now is gonna, be not as severe as we had in disappointed that we were expecting storm surges anywhere from six to be deemed foot now that's been downgraded to

somewhere about one two three feet so now we're looking for less water damage and less water intrusion into another bow buildings, as you might, and just do you get a sense that that everyone there is basically breathing a sigh of relief. I think officials here are breathing as very cautious, sire balloon, don't know for sure, get there still tracking the strong closely we are seeing lightning over the city. I can see the rain bands of rain kind of washing outside. I can hear the wind, but they are watching a storm that is much less catastrophic, then what they had it.

Back then just hours ago and in the words of key forward they feel blessed. There was no doubt that there was nothing short of the grace of God. There were not looking at a very risky Monday morning as of Monday morning at least four deaths in Florida. Were attributed to Hurricane Irma, which dropped up to sixteen inches of rain on part of the state and left three point: three million people without electricity. The weakened storm is now for northern Florida and by Monday night, it's expected to move into Georgia and Alabama we'll be right back.

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