injured than were injured in the tornado itself. 65 miles long, about a half a mile wide. that s almost 30 square miles worth of damage. and this thing very could easily be 150 miles per hour storm. 156 makes it a category five hurricane equivalent in the eye wall. that s how strong we are talking about, something hit down across the gulf coast earlier this year. i want to show you the purple sdwarz squares. this is yesterday. tornadoes on the ground. here comes the one very close there near columbus, georgia. there were more than ten tornado warnings at the same time for storms all rotating by themselves. when a line of storms lines up and we call it a squall line you get little tornadoes or wind damage. when you get storms all by themselves out there, that s
130,000 customer without power this evening. we re talk about category 1, or 2, hurricane equivalent in wind gusts. heavy rain, storm mountain. you may have been following over the past week we have been talking about the threaten oroville spillway that saw damage and overflow. it is going to be tested once again with this particular storm system as the rain continues to fall across this region. one last piece of video, this a rare video, webcam capturing a moment of the landslide in the san bernardino forest. no one was injured. it was dramatic to see. how quickly things can change in
best spot to affect as few people as possible, right? here is the track. category 5 and then 3 and not done with the storm yet. as the storm goes back out, there is okinawa. talking about a category 2 hurricane equivalent to hit that area and then head up mainland japan as a category 1 storm. the worst of it ending for the philippines and hooks out to okinawa the next few days with winds in excess of a hundred miles an hour. i don t think the damage is going to be devastating and i don t think a lot of casualties. one typhoon a few years back hit that area that could not handle the kind of winds that came on shore with the winds you expect from a super typhoon. ivan, thank you so much. we will continue to watch that. jameis winston not let a
it was the spray and sand that crushed so many people back here just all over the sides of the buildings here. in fact, it was the bay side, bill and jeff, that got the worst of it, not the ocean side. so many cars are literally covered, coated in sand in this area. some of the people say the bay met the ocean. they re separated by 12 blocks but literally at the low lying places the water swept right through. 35,000 people who live here, there was a mandatory evacuation in place. the good news is 90% of them heeded that warning but right now i think they have the hurricane equivalent of cabin peer and everybody felt a need to come back out and check it out themselves. your correspondent and colleague up there in rhode island. ron blome is out there. still seeing fierce winds coming onshore. what an amazing scene behind you. a lot haven t seen the ocean that angry, ron. it certainly has changed when talking to some of the longtime residents they say this isn t