Wind Damage Problems News Today

Been more toward lafayette, louisiana, who is in this bright yellow band right here. they just picked up an inch of rain in the last two hours. its still pouring right now and that bands not going to move much, so thats where the greatest risk of flash flooding is, in areas to the west of the baton rouge area. so if youre waking up in baton rouge, youre not out of the woods. you could still get some heavy bands of rain during the day today, but 10 to 20 inches is looking unlikely in that area. i...

This is where there was mostly just a wind problem in panama city. the result of all there when we brought it on shore, it was still intensifying. 150-mile-per-hour winds. this is the preliminary report, well get the official one in a couple of months when they get all the information together. but this puts it fourth all-time, adding on andrew, camille, the labor day storm, stronger than charlie and katrina as far as max winds. and lowest pressure ever measured. camille was our countrys worst s...

Michael now third on the list, ahead of andrew. if it had another three or four hours over water, it would have definitely gone up to a cat 5. and now, some wind damage problems with trees falling in central georgia. an additional tornado watch issued for all of south carolina. isolated tornadoes at work. and winds, not that bad. 56 in eastman, probably the worst of it. isolated damage to trees. and besides the records ive shown you, everybody is saying its the strongest storm to hit the panhand...

Or 30 structures in the town and theyre saying almost none of them exist anymore. you can see the pictures there. this small town community surrounded by farms with a main street. this is all thats left of it. theres hardly anything. our heart goes out to these people. this is horrible enough. we are fortunate as i mentioned with the storm that was this big on the ground this long that it didnt go through any major cities and kill dozens of people. when daylight comes up well get a better assess...