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This ever when it comes to all of the thoughts that we are dealing with, upwards of nine o 12 feeds on top of dry land, the fact that we are going to see if major hurricane force winds wanted to make landfall overnight tonight, the flooding is going to be the unprecedented side of this storm system, category two right now, on the high-end of the category two, 1 mile per our shy of a category three, and we think we ll get in the couple of hours, regardless, we are dealing with very strong winds, tornadoes thoughts certainly come into the fact that the storm is going to stall is going to make the impact even more dire, life-threatening, catastrophic, disaster, those are the types of terms at the national hurricane center is using because when we are talking about flood totals of 35 to 40 inches, in the next several days, that is going to be devastating for these areas, so watching the impact overnight tonight as a hurricane, category three major hurricane, we ....
There s a saying that goes you run from the water, you go and find safe shelter from the wind, and usually it s the water that kills people in hurricanes with a storm surge and inland flooding, that was the case with this storm, too. 2 million people without power at the height of the storm, even as of last night the number was close to 2 million. people are reporting power starting to come back on now. power crews from new hampshire are down in florida trying to get the power on. there s a mass effort to get everyone back up and running and life back to normal. estimated insurance losses are 4 to 6 billion, but that was before the flooding from north carolina, where we continue to get pictures. all the rivers are high. we even had some areas evacuating yesterday because they were worried about dams breaking. town of princeton was evacuated yesterday afternoon. these are the flood gauges in eastern north carolina. the red are the ones that are in major, so it s really the areas of grea ....
Meteorologist, who is focusing on this for us. give us the sense, is the worst of this over? historic flood totals. we are seeing the worst of the storm over now but you can see the numbers have added up. we have over two feet of rain already reported in sumpter, already with 19 inches. charleston, to give you an idea of how much rain that has been, they normally get that type of rain in three months time. so that was only within a day. now, the worst of this is over. we are talking about this rain starting to pull back from the coast. the low pressure system is now heading out towards the west and drier air is moving in behind it so a lot of the heavy rain band is moving out towards the coastline and chrarleston, myrte beach, even into columbia are starting to get a bit of a break from this rain. in the next 24 hours, by the time this is over, we may get an additional tenth of an inch in georgetown to half an inch in myrtle beach. even that little amount will add up, especially bec ....
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