Look, Hurricane Matthew is going to be bad. Real bad. It's currently a Category 4, and there's a good chance it will be the strongest hurricane to hit the mid- and upper-Atlantic Coast of Florida in years. There will be extensive property damage. The Kennedy Space Center is at serious risk. There's a danger Zika could spread like wildfire in the aftermath. If residents stay, they are putting themselves in extreme peril.

Fox News' Shepard Smith just made that abundantly clear on air. Let's go to the videotape:

Shep is a Florida Man himself—or at least set up shop there for 11 years. Maybe it's a little personal for him. But he really went in here:

"This moves 20 miles to the west, you and everyone you know are dead. All of you...and your kids die, too."

Earlier in the day, he also posed this question to a Florida Woman refusing to evacuate:

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Since Floridians have a habit of trying to stick these things out—looking at you, Vanilla Ice—maybe preaching extreme caution is necessary. That's what Governor Rick Scott did earlier today:

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Hurricane #Matthew: "Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate... This is going to kill people." https://t.co/6DRInngAOu pic.twitter.com/tyDUPvPkw7 — CNN (@CNN) October 6, 2016

So did the Weather Channel's Bryan Norcross:

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The @WeatherChannel just aired this unusual message from @TWCBryan, urging evacuations. "This is not hyperbole, and I am not kidding..." pic.twitter.com/tUYYM32hXX — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 6, 2016

More power to them. After all, you don't want to be on this side of things:

That's right, folks: Wind is now a liberal conspiracy. Or, it's real, and you should evacuate as soon as you can if your local authorities (and Shep Smith) are instructing you to do so.

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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