I still have people coming up to me and saying they are staying, ... I'm telling them to re-think their position.

We are very fortunate.

It seems that people are in fact following the evacuation order.

We're looking right now at a Category 2 or 3, ... We're planning for a worst case scenario here, where we think there will be 6- to 9-foot storm surge.

I think we did, so far, dodge a bullet, ... We still have some time to go. It's not the intensity of a (Category) 2 or 3 that we thought it would be.

I think we did, so far, dodge a bullet.

We expected flooding early on and when we didn't get it, we relaxed a bit, ... Some of the (city's) pumps are inadequate for the water.

I've toured part of the city and saw no major damage, ... There were some trees down, not large trees, mainly just debris and tree branches in the street.

We did not have the flooding I thought we'd have, ... We were extremely lucky.