I'm a state. You come back in your neighborhood's bone dry and you're like, so I don't know.

I think this time I'm going to hang. I hope it's the right call.

On St. Pete Beach in Florida, Steve Sewell filled as many sandbags as he could to protect

his house from storm surge.

There's one little layer of sandbags that Sun seemed to do. I mean, they're calling for

the four foot surge. So I'm at sea level. So I'm trying to get up three or four feet,

but you know, finding bags. There are no bags defying a mandatory evacuation order.

Sewell chose to stay put before Hurricane Italia made landfall farther north.

I don't let fear make my decisions for me.

That is Joshua Keith in panacea, Florida. He was under a voluntary evacuation order

before Adalya made landfall study and make an educated choice to go or stay.

In this case, I knew we were probably not going to flood because we were on the west side

of the storm and it was pulling out and my thumb been flooded twice. So I know what

it takes to get the water in my house, which is nine foot surge on a high tide.

Many people though did choose to heed evacuation orders, people like Ellen Bird. He's from

Shell Point. He evacuated to Panama City before returning home on Wednesday.

It's just real windy and title surge.

Adalya moved through his area without leaving much damage.

The storm passed through, but luckily we were on the west side of it and all the guys

from the east side that we've talked to, it's really, really bad. They got the bulk of

the title surge and wind around Keith Beach.

Bird says he is lucky. Adalya did not wreak havoc in Shell Point, where he runs Marsh Harbor

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