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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,...

What does this scene behind me mean to you? >> is that the energy in this storm if it comes in with the power and the wind at above a category 2 and with winds and rain as predicted, it could be like a weapons of mass destruction concentrated at landfall. and i don't want to alarm people but if you visualize all the power lines down and most of the homes within three to five miles of the coast flooded and all the rivers running over their banks five or six times what they normally are, it would have the effect of a weapons of mass destruction. and when you don't have power, as we know, chris, ...

And that's what we'll do at duke energy. we won't rest until the last restoration is restored. david fountain, thank you very much, we appreciate your time from duke energy. anderson, you heard him. seven million people. that's a lot of people. he said they're bringing in armies of people not just the carolinas but surrounding states but when you have that flooding, who knows when it will be restored, if you can get your food and electricity and what have you. you don't know when it will come back. >> yeah, just one of the many unknowns that the folks are facing. we're going to continue our co...

Bands, the winds, waves, surge it will be happening. most of these storms come in and go. this is going to sit here for 24 to 36 hours once it makes landfall. we're not talking about from now so we'll talk about this storm through the weekend as it's sitting here dumping rain. the storage surge and flooding will be the two main concerns with this storm. we're talking about taking a beat of 120 mile per hour winds for 24 hours, a lot of structures will fail but the inundation of waters will be devastating with this storm. all 6 that energy is coming along with it and it will come

Brian todd in hampstead, north carolina. brian, i understand that you're getting it there. what's going on? >> reporter: right, don, this is the inter coastal waterway behind me. the waterway obviously between the mainland north carolina and the outer banks, some of the barrier islands. if it looks like i'm standing in the intercoastal waterway, i'm not. i'm standing on old landing road. right now this road and the inter coastal are pretty much one in the same because as you can see the storm surge is coming in and this road is starting to get flooded. i'm in a few inches of water. not severe ...