Florence evacuees take refuge in Daytona Beach

With Florence battering the Carolinas, lots of people have been coming down to Central Florida to get out of the rain. 

Andre White came down from Myrtle Beach.

“We were in Zone C,” White said, “so every three zones had to evacuate.”

Walking his dogs near his Daytona Beach hotel, White said nothing was left on the shelves back home. 

“Everything was empty. No plywood at Home Depot, none of them had plywood at all,” he said.

White, and others like him, drove for hours to get out of the danger zone. Lots of Central Florida hotels are offering discounted room rates to people fleeing Hurricane Florence's wrath.

The Streamline Hotel, for instance, said they're giving them 30 percent discounts, and they've been fully-booked until Saturday. 

Disney and Rosen hotels have also been giving discounts. 

Still, evacuees say it's no vacation.

“I can't say it's been relaxing knowing at home there's tornado warnings, flooding,” said Angel Allgrim, an evacuee from North Carolina, “just don't know what we're gonna go back to!”

“I'm scared what I'm gonna find back home,” White said, “because I don't have any neighbors that stayed home, either, and I have big trees in my backyard, too.”