00:00Officials are urging people who live in the zones under evacuation orders
00:04to get out as soon as possible. U.S. Senator Rick Scott says this is a dangerous situation,
00:10especially with that combination of a nighttime landfall, possibly during high tide,
00:15with the risk of tornadoes. If they're telling you you need to evacuate,
00:20I mean, evacuate as soon as you can and just don't take a chance. There should be no death
00:26during the storm, and there should be no death after a storm. If you get a generator,
00:30you can't put the generator in your house. It will kill you.
00:36Pensacola and many coastal cities and towns along the Florida Panhandle are surrounded by water.
00:41Six to ten feet of storm surge combined with eight to ten inches or more of rain is a huge
00:47concern here
00:48with this hurricane forecast. Peak wind gusts could top out well over 100 miles an hour.
00:53Escambia County's emergency manager says early evacuation is crucial. Once sustained winds
00:59reach 39 miles an hour, emergency response, and many of the bridges in the Pensacola area
01:05will be shut down. The winds are 75 miles per hour. There's nothing that we can do to get to
01:12you at that. We have to get to you afterwards, and we will get to you afterwards. But at that
01:17point in
01:17time, if you did not pay attention to evacuation orders, we'll get to you, but that's going to take
01:23a minute. Yeah, they're warning people in evacuation zones A and B and those living in
01:31mobile homes that they're essentially on their own if they stay behind and choose not to evacuate.
01:36Dump trucks have been busy hauling in sand to keep up with the demand of families and businesses
01:41filling up those sandbags. Now, officials are telling people, especially in the evacuation zones,
01:47that if they don't leave, they should be prepared with at least three days worth of emergency
01:51supplies. But they say that the impacts here could be much worse compared to what people saw
01:57during Sally. That was the last big hurricane impact back in 2020. All right, AccuWeather correspondent
02:03Bill Adel. Bill, thanks for your reporting. We'll continue to check back with him as we go through
02:07the week and the weekend.
