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Dangerous wind gusts and flashing lightning created a dramatic scene in the Florida Panhandle just before AccuWeather correspondent Ali Reid and her photographer Andy Coates headed out for safety.

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00:00the conditions here just continue I mean it really is incredible what we're seeing here
00:05on the Pensacola Bay if you can take a look just behind here you can see just how intense
00:10conditions really are getting here we've seen a few things happen you can see actually in the
00:16distance in the water I don't know if you can right okay I want to point right right there
00:22okay there's a thing right here this thing sticking out of the water here Bernie is actually
00:28a jacuzzi cover we just had my photographer Andy and I had to duck for cover I mean the windlass
00:36are just so intensely strong here that's just lifting things all up and over the roads I mean
00:42debris is just everywhere along here it really is just impressive to say the least the other thing
00:49is is we're about a block over from a neighborhood we just got talking to a family I saw them
00:55grabbing all of their belongings and I said we are getting out of here so they grabbed all of their
01:00things into the car and they left because this whole area oh yeah Andy can you take a look all
01:08the lights just went out
01:12hold on one second Bernie can you hear me okay
01:22look over here on this side of town look over here no power we just left everything
01:29lights are out lights are out lights are out
01:42wow I mean the wind gusts here again 115 mile an hour wind gusts and here's the thing Bernie we're
01:49going to get out of here like the photographer Andy and I were saying this has just become to the
01:53point where it's unsafe
01:54uh again I think right now here's the interesting thing is that like now okay
01:58you get a few seconds to go away the best go away and it's all right
02:02so but here's the thing I hear I know what you're about to say
02:05we realize the conditions are not safe enough to be here anymore
02:08and we're going to change locations to get out of here
02:11you
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