Page 643 - Flash Flooding News Today

Picking up. the strongest winds recorded an hour away from here closer to myrtle beach near conway, south carolina. the wind gusts there hit 63 miles per hour. but the story here, the story there across the state of south carolina is not and has not been about the wind. the officials, the federal, state officials say the focus is the rainfall and the potential flash flooding. in south carolina, there is a lot of concern about the development over the next couple of days for river flooding. there...

Tide and the rain theyve been getting here, thats whats causing the flooding issues. theyve seen river flooding here before. folks say we saw flooding years ago with other storms, but this appears to be the highest theyve seen in this neighborhood in quite sometime. river flooding will be an issue throughout much of north and south carolina. rivers arent going to be able to handle all the rain. in jacksonville, yesterday, early in the morning, about 60 people had to be evacuated from a hotel aft...

You go ahead. can we still hear her? okay. we lost mariana. her signal is going in and out as things get rickety. lets go up to jacksonville. i find it hard to believe, joe, that you are continuing to get the eks of this storm. thats how big it is. >> thats amazing, ali. we were the first ones to see the rain. that was on thursday afternoon. this gives you an idea of how much the northeastern part of north carolina has been dealing with rain and still today weve seen some of the strongest bands ...

Around here. so it topples trees, it topples power lines. in north carolina, theres a lot of estuaries. so they rise with tides and storm surges. we have rising tidal waters. look at this behind me. this is going to be a flooding issue here. this storm is now moving inland so we just talked to the mayor of charlotte a few minutes ago. i have matt bradley head to go columbia, south carolina, where we know from craig melvin he has family in north carolina and theyre experiencing some some flooding...

Its a massive flooding. >> the storm was not as easy to track. it is behaving in its own way. the winds are lower than we expected, but this rain is something that while it doesnt feel as serious to everybody, these floods can be -- they can sort of creep up to you and surprise you. >> and, yeah, thats the point that we started tracking exactly as the storm began the decrease in wind speed and we saw a category 4 drop to 3 and to 2. we started to worry that the attention was going to go away fro...

People are tweeting me about the indy intelligent, what about the homeless or people who dont have money to even drive or fill their tank. some of these cities set up mu n municipal shelters. what are you at in terms of capacity? >> we have room for people. we encourage people to fine out where the red cross shelters are located. we have 200 shelters stationed across the state. we encourage people to take this storm seriously. the landfall and the wind may take effect and the flooding. with thos...

Waters. the majority of them were in a single nursing home and across the county here. many more people have had to be rescued can more expected today. we can tell you in onslo county here, in the unincorporated areas, there was a mandatory evacuation issued a few days ago. they just wanted to get people out of the county. they didnt even initially open up shelters here. the message was just get out of the county, get to ground that might not experience as much flooding. here in jacksonville, it...

Bands of rain this morning. its been relentless since thursday afternoon. because of that, were seeing flooding. im standing on cork street. cork street stops where im standing. if you look in my direction, you can see this neighbor is under water and has been since yesterday morning and afternoon. you can see thats a car thats largely submerged with the trunk open. we were here last night. that car was not there. it appears the flood waters carried that car into that location. just a few minute...

Times. kerry sanders up the coast from me in carolina beach, north carolina. i want to come back to south carolina now to georgetown, south carolina, where the mayor, brendan barber is on the phone with me. this is the situation in georgetown where most people didnt leave or maybe about half of your population left? >> probably about 60%, ali, of our population left. but we still have about 40% here in the city of georgetown. >> whats your situation? >> right now, im sitting at east bay park. ou...

Time for any mayor to have the right infrastructure. our storm drainage systems, our tree canopy, all those things to make our city safer during the storm. >> mayor, you mentioned there are a lot of people coming into charlotte. with the flooding and rain youre expecting, is it still a safe place to be? youre not asking for anyone to leave? >> were not asking for an evacuation. were asking for our low lying plains, if people feel theyre in danger of flooding, come to our shelter. >> mayor, you a...