Page 11 - Wind Event News Today

That corresponds to the winds. But the power would be turned off several hours before the winds. Everyone needs to get prepared today and before tomorrow afternoon. Pg and e customers are being told this outage could last at least several days. It could be shorter, and hopeful loi hopefully it will be. This is to prevent another catastrophic wildfire, as you get a look at the conditions here from sky 7. Its just impossible to contend with, and youre dealing with this both in Northern California ...

A rare dust devil-like wind event caused damage to a building in McMinnville, OR Tuesday afternoon.

After a 48 hour period of locally heavy rainfall, and some flooding, along with some severe weather early Thursday, expect more rain and storms to develop for Acadiana Friday into Friday night.

Time it is -- officials are warning of people still under direct path of the storm to drop everything, and evacuate before it is too late. telling residents, it will be impossible for majority workers to reach them when disaster strikes one storm chaser in florida describes what he is seeing so far. >> this is going to be a catastrophic wind event, similar to hurricane -- which was a -- chase that storm also, so you are going to have a 30 mile wide approximately 30 mile wide damage path of catas...

Morning. >> and its going to be very, very dangerous, and there we go with our -- with our power here. were back. >> and we are back, we want to bring in the mayor of tallahassee, john daly, thank you very much for being with us. youve asked people who chose not to evacuate to shelter in place. what are you seeing this morning? >> well, were seeing the storm move past us. were still dealing with the wind event and rain event. weve got about 35,000 people without power, our crews are out working ...

>> well, its not being nearly the wind event that it was -- people were talking about. it is blowing 50 or 60 out there right now rather than 100. im glad its not 125 like people had talked about. so maybe in that aspect were maybe dodging a little bullet. >> bret: its broader about the state. some insurance companies are leaving the state. people who are there have trouble getting insurance. it is really expensive. is that an issue for you all? >> yes, it is. you know, yes, flood insurance is a...

Right where that blue sign is that shows floridas treasure, which is the manatee and showing this is where people come to see manatees. now we are seeing the water really rise, really come up. here is the deal, this isnt even the worst of the storm surge. this is just the beginning. we are just past low tide. low tide. high tide is not expected until about 4:30 this afternoon. so we have a ways to go and at 4:30 this afternoon we will really see what the effect of this storm will be on crystal r...

Hours. >> landfill is expected about what time, dr. brennan? >> be sometime in the next few hours. its hard to tell. you can tell it wiggles here but i would expect by early to midmorning hours well have the center moving onshore somewhere in the big bend region. >> as you look at the map, just the staying power of this storm, the projected staying power, it moves up through florida and continues to be a hurricane, maybe even a category 2 up into georgia and south carolina. this is going to be a...

Hawaii electric company, accusing them of starting those deadly wildfires. the company already faces numerous negligence lawsuits, but this is the first to say that their utility wires caused that blaze. nbcs steve patterson is on the ground there. what more can you tell us? >> just that, chris, that their utility caused that fire, that it was the significant wind event and messages that were ignored about the possibility of maybe deenergizing those lines that came down in the wind, in dry brush...

So they can safely shut off the power. the lawsuit, 48 pages, alleges that none of that was done ahead of the fire, and that simply the warnings from the national weather service went unheard, and so when you had that wind event with the dry brush, the energized lines that it sparked and caused the fire. theyre saying theres $5.5 billion worth of damages. the electric company did respond saying that they feel sort of put off by the fact that this was done before the full investigation was comple...