Shore. We made landfall and continue to move north at a rapid rate. North northeast at 15 miles an hour. So moving quickly. A reminder. Were seeing the pictures inside the eye. Its a very dangerous thing. This thing is moving so fast, 15 miles an hour. As it moves north, you may have some calm inside the eye but its dangerous. Youll have the back edge of the winds. We often see that to be incredibly dangerous. Be careful. Really just best to stay in a safe place in the shelter. So with time, lets look and see where well get the center moving. When you have a landfall this strong, 155 miles an hour hurricane, its going to take time to reduce the winds once we made landfall. We still expect to have strong winds, Hurricane Force, moving in to georgia. So into the evening hours, central georgia, take the rain that we showed and look at the winds on top of it. Could get trees down, Power Outages into georgia. Look at this wind field. Tropical Storm Force Winds extending out 175 miles. A strong system. So without a doubt, we have some time to go with this. We still need to be careful. Flow around this system like this. Youll still have on shore flow on some of the beaches and the panhandle. The water will be slow to come down. Some places more water on the way. Think about how large this system is. We have Tropical Storm warnings on the atlantic portion of this storm from georgia and into the carolinas with some of this onshore. What are the hazards . The rainfall, a dangerous situation with the rainfall. When you have the tropical systems a lot of moisture around the center and in the rain bands. So 610 inches of rain potentially. Were moving, the downpours are incredible. With time youll see 4 to 6 inches in some of the other areas that will cause a problem with the wind and the rain. That is where we can see some trees down, getting into georgia. Storm surge is something that weve talked about for days. High values potentially. You really look at this. Its an area that is incredibly vulnerable to the storm surge. Thats why weve been hitting it hard. Half the fatalities is storm surge. With time, youll see the water levels still coming up. Were not done with it yet. Weve been talking about this. Not just a coastal issue. Weve seen the water, the Barrier Islands and pushing the the wind keeps pushing the water inland with time, this is the apalachicola river. Northerly we drain the water out. In a situation like this, were seeing the river reverse, pushing the storm surge in. Weve been talking about not just coastal but well inland. To illustrate that, if youre living inland on these rivers, this is the coastline. Look at the apalachicola river inland. The water level sharply coming up. Thats miles and miles inland. Thats something that weve been covering. Its still not safe to be outside. A situation where the water levels can stay up. Hurricane force through the evening. Its best just to stay shelter, this is the latest from hurricane michael, ken graham at the National Hurricane center. Shepard ken, thanks. Lets got Panama City Beach. Jeff flock is there. How is it . This is our first look, shep, at the beach. Trying to make our way next to the hotel. Its an air b b. Look at that guy. Hes waving. She just went away. Shes waving up there. Look at that. Somebody survived it. Well see how the beach survived. Come on, kyle. Shepard the signal will be in and out. Were saying with this. We havent seen this yet. Lets go. The surf is not as bad as we thought it would be. Obviously still surging some as we speak here. Look, this could have been worse. You said earlier, 18 look at that. The railing just its not catastrophic damage but that is the pool railing there. Obviously collapsed. Im looking down. See what other kind of damage i see. I dont see anything terrible, i really dont. Im looking this way. You know, obviously storm fence knocked down. That sort of thing. I do not see any catastrophic damage, shep. We do obviously still see the scene of the gulf. But i tell you, this could have been over there. Okay. Were up to our ears in surf here. No, this could have been a lot worse. Thats your headline. Certainly could have been worse. Shepard you could have been 20 miles west. Your winds ought to be coming from right to left now as you look at the beach from west to east, right . You called that two hours ago. Youre absolutely right. That is now now its passed us, occasionally you still get a good gust here and there. When that happens, you do get, you know, the whole sand blast routine. Youre right. Now theyre coming this way. Thats an indication the storm is passed us. Youve seen the radar. You know it better than i do. I dont think the back end has a lot to it. That would suit me just fine. Shepard i think youre right about that. Youll get more wind and rain. Stay safe, jeff. Lets go east in panama city, close to panama city proper now. Rick leventhal is there. How is it look something. Its better than it was, shep. Were still getting buffeted by high winds. I had my wind meter out. Clocked a gust at over 50 miles an hour. The cover came off and i went to pick it up and it took off. That is gone. The way stuff flies around out here in the wind. We do see a utility pole that came down and a couple trees. What is remarkable to me, how many trees are still standing. Look at the forest beyond me. Most of the trees are still up. Obviously thats great. We do see some sign damage, minor damage here and there. Well get a better look at it when the worst of this is over ander with getting pounded a bit here, shep. You know, the visibility has improved and the wind speeds have come down. The rain is still hitting us hard. Shepard so many people have been out in a boat when all of a sudden it starts raining and you floor it, you go as fast as you can toward the docks and usually that is 40, 45, 50 miles an hour if you have a fancy boat. Double that, what does that rain feel like at 100 miles an hour . It hurts. It stings your face. Hurts bad. Im trying not to get hit by it right now. Ive had enough for the day. You know, its been pretty rough out here. You know, this is what authorities were worried about, getting hit this hard in this particular location that hasnt seen winds this strong or the one thing that i cant tell you about, jeff flock was worried about a storm surge. Must of Panama City Beach is at a 10 foot elevation. I dont see a lot of flooding here. Were a couple miles from the gulf coast. If theres a surge, it hasnt reached where were located. Shepard show people why that is. On camera four. There you go. Heres why that is. Heres the storm, right . Heres panama city. The storm is here. Where is the storm . Its come here. Heres where Panama City Beach is, over here. This is the circulation, right . So everything over here is getting 140, 150 miles an hour winds. Pushing enormous waves in apalachicola and port st. Joe. Huge storm surge. On the back side, the winds are like this. So here on Panama City Beach, the winds have come this way as the storm reached shore. You dont get a storm surge. You get bodied of water emptied out. The grand lagoon got emptied out into by shell island. Got emptied in the gulf of mexico. You have the same really strong wind pushing it. Now the storm has moved inland, the flow is counterclockwise and all around this center, now the winds are coming out of the west. Look at Panama City Beach. Its an eastwest beach. The water is coming along. No great storm surge. When this is over, the people of bay county at least along Panama City Beach will be able to look back and say not that the meteorologists missed it, the 155 maximum category four storm, strongest thing youve seen in the United States in a long time and the worst storm ever to hit this part of the world, ever in recorded history. It didnt hit the big population area. It hid over here. It made a jog of 15 miles. That is the difference in that on the map. It could have just as easily hit Panama City Beach. In Panama City Beach, i bet you they got on their knees and said their prayers last night. If theyre otherwise inclined, they got extremely lucky. This storm missed destroying their lives by that much on a map. By wiping out the Tourism Industry and the center of the economic engine for the entirety of bay county. It missed it by that much. Instead, hit Tyndall Air Force base. I know they had largely evacuated there. I spent a lot of time at tyndall over the years covering stories back during local television. Its a lot of concrete block buildings and they can handle this sort of stuff. The u. S. Military will get you organized and get you out. The rafters are out of there and they had a skeleton staff there and wore all hoping and praying theyre just fine. Well know soon enough. Look at the eye of this storm. Its getting wobbly now. The huge rain band is heading to steel city, chippley. This is part of the panama city viewing area. Its about to rain cats and dogs for you guys. Youll have Hurricane Force winds coming up. We must take a commercial break. I have to show you the dow first. The industrial average is in pointswise, this is an enormous day. Were off 2. 3 with 45 minutes, a little more left in the trading day. Weve been around this area hovering here. The nasdaq down even more. Last check, the nasdaq was about 200 points, which amounts to about 2. What is it now . Down 2. 3 . 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Liberty shepard new video has just come in from the big bend area east of apalachicola. Lenark villages, which is along the coast. Kelsie has this new video. Yeah, this is from a Volunteer Fire Department about 45 minutes east of where this made landfall, east of mexico city. They posted about five or six videos, this is the most recent one. Shepard east of mexico beach here. Thats what i meant. As they zoom out, you can see that someone is looks like theyre filming this from the safety of a car. The side door there. Somebody that is not out in the storm but still dangerous conditions. A couple more that they posted as well. Standard construction. Everything on stilts. Sometimes garages underneath, like washing machines and stuff. But that first area has to be breakaway and it is. Water under the houses. The windshield wipers going back and forth. Somebody trying to stay covered. Its a bad one. Shepard yeah, it is a bad one. This is far east of the center of circulation. Way far east of thats about to get picked up. We havent seen pictures from where the worst of this was right there at Tyndall Air Force base. We will eventually. The east side of bay county, the east side of panama city proper. Another one here . You can see the construction, the coastal construction. This goes back really to opal and prior to that. Opal back in 95. That changed the setback lines and changed how high you have to build your homes on stilts. So you put the home on stilts and use the underneath for storage or parking a car. The reason you do it, the water will go underneath the home and maybe leave it standing. Looks like here thats what happened. Looks like it. Shepard kelsie, thank you. I want to get to adam klotz. Here our one of our meteorologists in the extreme weather center. Adam, still moving ashore. Yes, a massive storm. Youve been showing videos and pictures hundreds of miles away from each other. You dont have to be near the eye to be feeling the effects. Theres rain falling in tampa, now close to atlanta. So a massive storm all associated with this. The eye wall remember, when the eye came on shore, winds of 155 miles an hour. Were getting close to the state line, alabama, georgia. Winds still at 150 miles an hour. Were an hour drive north is where the storm would be if youre in a car. Were still talking about a category four storm. Its powerful and not weakening a lot because its on land. Heres some of the recent wind gusts. Even as we move off the shore, still seeing winds at times up in the mid 60s. We had a recent one there in apalachicola. That was just completely taken down. That typically happens when you get winds closer to triple digits. You lose the sensors because the winds are so strong. Not surprised that happened in apalachicola. Even though the center continues to move a little farther north because of that big broad rotation, theres still time for storm surge to pile up, especially in the big bend area. Were looking at the forecasted areas that could see if theyre not already 10 to 12 feet of storm surge. That is where the storm surge will be the greatest, from apalachicola stretching to the big bend. Its on the eastern side because of the way the wind moves. Still circling around the storm. That could force the water up what will be happening next and ill leave you with this, shep, you asked about the storm being strong at a category four. Were going to be running into georgia as a category two hurricane. This will likely be a hurricane through the overnight hours. Not becoming a Tropical Storm until maybe early today morning. Its so big, its so powerful, its going to run through georgia and run into the carolinas. Its going to be a hurricane here probably the next 12 hours, at least Something Like that. Shepard wow, adam. Its on its way north now about to run into interstate 10, probably hit i10 around marianna in just about an hour, 1 1 2 hours. These are live pictures from Rosemary Beach. So many of you have a connection to 30 a. If you have a home or a getaway or like the beach, if youre from the southeastern United States and you go to 30 a area, this is it. This is Rosemary Beach. Along here, we have seaside and sea grove and sea grove place. You get to Rosemary Beach. Lets watch. You can see an awning. Its blocking the street. Were going theres a turn around here. Were going to turn around. Try to pull in to show you that. Get a better idea what that was. Theres power lines down here. You can see briefly there. Heres the damage that i was talking about. Not sure what this was. It was something that was an awning of some sort. I dont want to move the camera much. Once we stop back up a little bit. Looks like another awning over gas pumps almost. As adam gets situated there, just looking at the streets, you can see the wind picking up because the rain is being pushed along on the roads there. Hes getting closer to where michael made landfall. The conditions will pick up shepard thats local coverage from fox 10 wala for the mobile and pensacola area. Also fort walton beach. They moved to this vacation area. If you were to have gone to a place called Rosemary Beach 30 years ago, youd see nothing. Right along 30 a theres older houses and some salty families that had vacation getaways. Nothing like it is now. County road 30 a is a place where people from atlanta and nashville and memphis area found a little getaway slice of paradise where things arent too expensive and theres bigger plots of land. Some of the most beautiful beaches you have ever seen anywhere on this earth. I have traveled, i will tell you. It doesnt get much more beautiful than this. Allies beach, seacrest, sea grove beach. Those of you familiar know what im talking about. Inland beach. Sure, theres some awnings down. Keep in mind that this was a place that they thought might get hit. Instead, it was largely missed. Walas reporter is on scene and giving a live report for us. I want to listen in as he begins as he beginning right now. Its amazing how dramatically it changes here. Last time we spoke, we were in the thick of some of the worst wind and rain weve seen all day. Now some of it has died down. Take a look at the mass cam. You can see what looks to be the edge of the storm. We can see it out over the water. Its making its way and looks like destin, florida, looks like for now they have lucked out. Whether this is the edge or whether were in the middle of one of those bands. Take a look at the pictures from further down the road, Panama City Beach. The picture there much different. You can see the effects of the strong winds. Theres a reason that they warn people about the winds. What its doing to the surf and the trees and the amount of water that is whipping up. The rain that is coming down. The flags up on the flagpoles. Its just so strong, theres a reason why they warn people when these winds get up to the gusts get up to 150 miles an hour. This storm is continuing to move inland. Its going to continue to move over the panhandle and start to make its way northeast as well. Theres still a long path ahead. Besides the wind, the storm surge, which could reach 13, 14 feet, lowlying areas, lots of low construction, single story houses. Those are the most susceptible to the catastrophic damage. We have a long way to go. For things looking better here in destin. Shepard yeah, destin, thanks again to wala. I want to show you this spot. The map has switched over. I did have is it still there . No, it isnt. At any rate, hes in destin. My map has disappeared for the moment. Its on the far western edge of the area that was in trouble because of this storm or potentially. They are just beginning to see the first light of day. Sun is about to come out in destin, florida. The worst is over. 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