high tide with that persistent easterly wind with this stationary tropical cyclone that continues to pile up that water and the more that falls upstream, it just can't go anywhere with that on shore flow blocking it and that's just exacerbating the flooding situation up in new bern and now developing here in the wilmington area with this prolific rainfall continuing. >> i want to show our viewers one of kind of the before and after shots that you've posted. when i show them, it's -- this is union point in new bern, and you can see quite the difference between the before on the left side of your screen and the after on the right. can you tell me about it? >> yeah, it's just incredibly scary out there in new bern. it's well removed from the coastal location, but they're well familiar with flooding there but nothing of this magnitude and something that came up 10, 15 feet with waves on top of it. it's a very scary situation. you can see currents in there as well. and you can just be driving along and suddenly high tide will start to approach and a wall of water will just come