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And, thats not counting the storm surge. when you start talking about a storm surge of 13 to 18 feet, maybe, thats going to have a big impact, especially in this area. and let me explain why. much of this part of the eastern seaboard is not really very high at all. if you look at this, if you had a storm surge of just 9 to 10 feet, everything in red here is going to be submerged. and that is an awful lot of people, anderson. >> theres a lot of talk about this hurricane possibly stalling on the c...

On the coast, just sitting there instead of moving inland. i was just talking to our last guest about that. can you explain the difficulties that thats going to bring? >> yeah. essentially, you have a pincer effect. this is what jennifer was talking about a little while ago. you have the water thats pushing in from the ocean, and its piling up onshore. and at the same time, the inland rain is pushing water this way. and then you wind up with an indeterminant amount of water in some communities. ...