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But you start going into monday and even tuesday and its got a long way to go. by the time we get that next system to go, youre still going to have a lot of rainfall in lynns was going take a while so we are looking at the entire weekend dealing with some of these issues. so we can see this flooding potential from all the rain. >> shepard: they still might be getting rain monday tuesday or wednesday? >> definitely. look over the last 20 some years of doing this, if you think about even on monday...

13 foot storm surge, well easily have half of our community under water. >> bill: a final question and i need a quick answer. i dont know how to answer it myself and why i ask it. if youre in a river town, i understand the flooding 10 feet it comes up. youre on the ocean. how does 10 feet of flooding affect you? >> 10 feet affects us in two ways. one, we have the ocean, the sound, and the river. so we get 10 feet all the way around. and so for us that constitutes a whole section of our community...

This is atlantic beach taking the beating. we could not stay there. the streets of morehead a few hours ago we drove down them to give our viewers a shot but it is just business after business, tree after tree blown away. you can see this sign, street signs flying like a piece of weapon. thats the street were on. we went around the corner. one thing that is of concern here in morehead city. were getting close to high tide, this is going to spill is into the streets which are already getting floo...

Ocean. he does mention some people are saying is not that big of a deal because its been downgraded to a category one but this hurricane is moving incredibly slowly. when it was over the ocean, it was accumulating moisture. now its moving inland and we are expecting to get it way worse than this in just a few hours, expecting flash floods, so far within justice district, theres about 15,000 homes, the latest that i saw an hour ago. 10,000 homes of lost power in the entire south carolina. were lo...

>> bill, thank you and your crew for being out there reporting for us. stay safe. of course. we dodged a bullet in virginia. but were prepared and ready to go in case there is any flooding in the estuaries and rivers. theyre already wet from a wet summer. we may have flooding. well find out. were ready and prepared to help our neighbors. 1500 virginia national guardsmen are pre-positioned all over virginia to help out and up to 6,000 might be deployed. norfolk naval base we sent ships out to sea...

With you, a pretty big win. the damage was moderate, little bit of structural power, but what happened to us as the storm came across and it moved in odd direction. and now we have a pretty significant flooding issue from a surge in a five-minute. , which ive never seen before. the high tide was 11:00, so now waiting for the tide to go slack so we can get back on the island to try to figure out what weve got. >> shepard: youve got a somewhat unique situation with water from banks channel on the ...

It will be reminiscent of what southeast texas had with hurricane harvey and the flooding will be potentially catastrophic and life threatening. we had pictures out of new bern earlier today, over a 10 foot storm surge and people were rescued and still waiting to be rescued because they didnt evacuate. also as i mentioned, over 20, 30 inches of unofficial rainfall totals and this storm really hasnt even made its impact in terms of rainfall. we could get 10 to 20 more inches in parts of north car...

>> shepard: that eye of the storm heading towards columbia and greenwood and anderson in gainesville in that direction. >> it is, seems like the forecast is pretty close to on track, really slow movement, even becoming a storm or so weakening with the wind, 8:00 a.m. sundays thats not a lot of real estate, still having the center in south carolina but an important point to make here, some areas in charleston as he had offshore flow. if you move the center in lynn, the flow around that can actual...

>> right now it looks like we have just a couple of small issues for damage, roofs here and there, small wall that has collapsed. but other than that, most of it is minor debris, trees and things like that. not very much flooding. we dont have too much in the way of power lines or phone lines in the road but we are completely out of power on the island. so thats about 6,000 residents. >> bill: you are about on the underbelly of the storm, is that right, michael, the southern end of it? >> yes, t...

Rain is pretty surmountable for any municipality or city in the country to handle that kind of water. >> bill: were working off generator power. your cell phone is still working. thats not bad, right? you look at this storm three days ago 140 miles an hour sustained winds and we dropped to below 100 last night. if you look for silver linings perhaps thats one of them. it doesnt take away from the storm surge and flooding. that is one thing we can point to. >> absolutely. it all helps. when we we...