00:00Please evacuate immediately.
00:03Hurricane Isaias rocked Pensacola Beach with extreme winds and prolific lightning.
00:09Unlike most hurricanes, the storm packed the biggest punch on the west side of the eye.
00:14When they say mandatory evacuation is going to be bad, we're going.
00:18The biggest thing was the storm surge. So when I saw it six to nine feet, I said no, there's
00:23no way.
00:23Many families evacuated Pensacola Beach, including Laura Dean.
00:27Her family left the barrier island hours before her condo blew apart in wind gusts topping 100 miles an hour.
00:34If they ever tell you to leave, leave or we probably wouldn't be here today.
00:39Things can be replaced. Your family cannot.
00:42I'm so grateful that I have my son and my father.
00:45Other people stayed behind.
00:47Alex Brown witnessed his shed filled with gas canisters somehow catch fire in Gulf Breeze.
00:53First responders braved intense winds to put out the flames and protect his home before Isaias made landfall.
01:00Just the embers from this, you could see them shooting across the street.
01:03I mean, that's how far they were traveling with 60 mile an hour winds.
01:07And I was thinking this house goes ablaze. The whole neighborhood is going to be at risk.
01:10Work is underway to restore power and clean up the wind and storm surge damage after the eighth hurricane to
01:16make landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast in the past 10 years.
01:20Officials say Isaias should be a reminder that people should not wait for a storm to become a major hurricane
01:26before deciding if it's time to evacuate.
01:29When you start hitting a category one and above, everything gets really dynamic and can change.
01:33You have things that can go wrong so unbelievably quickly.
01:38In Pensacola Beach, Florida, for AccuWeather, I'm Bill Waddell.
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