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Boats off their moorings, sustained winds can change the way a community looks and functions for a long time. ed, i'll check back with you. now we'll go to carolina city. miguel marquez in north carolina along the coast starting to see more of the effect of florence. what is it like where you are? >> we got a good punch of rain a short time ago and we are expecting more short ly. the we have as are getting bigger and more frequent. they have had some flooding on the north part of carolina beach from where the dunes are lower. about 18 inches right now but not terrible, they are expecting much,...

It moves slowly and then when it gets you you're in major trouble. i've been trying to be the expert and tell you what's going on but this man to my right knows exactly what is going on. let's talk about the problems we face right now. as you heard anderson say, people are bored in their homes and they want to see things. these folks have been coming out. they weren't here when we got here earlier. the beach is not closed technically? >> the beach is not closed. the water is closed. we don't want to spend our resources rescuing somebody from rough waves when that is completely preventable. you...

On shore so as we see these high tide cycles, i was watching diane's live shot where the water 1 coming in during high tide, now that the low tide is approaching this afternoon that water won't move out. it will stay there so when the next high tide comes in, that water is going to push in even more. the water will l build and bu d build. not to mention the rivers. the rivers will get backed up close to where anderson is in wilmington. it's expected to crest at record level 24 feet and we will see roads underwater. a lot of people will be cut off if this holds true with that 24 feet because th...

With this water pushing in, in, in and the rainfall the water has nowhere to drain so you'll get incredible amounts of water well inland away from the coast. >> the cape fear river is expected to reach a new high from what it experienced in 1999 during floyd. reached 23.5 feet or so. i want to go to don in myrtle beach. i was talking to a lady who is bored in her home so she came down to take a look at the cape fear river. she said its like waiting for a turt toll arrive. but to hear it's moving at 10 miles an hour but it will slow down once it makes lands fall to four miles per hour. >> she b...

If you lose power and the distribution lines go down, you can go two to three weeks, a month without power. >> that's an important point, general. they are not talking hours or even days. they are planning for weeks. so even if you stay, even if you play it right and now you have access to your property and an ability to recover, you don't have the resources to do it. you will be living in a very rough situation because although you'll be surrounded by water it's like the old fable, water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. the water goes from runoff to not being potable to toxic soup v...