Page 4 - Hurricane Forces News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Hurricane? >> yes, the bahamas are no stranger to hurricanes, they dealt with them last year and they were prepared for irma arrival. these are six of the seven more southerly islands were evakd wednesday and thursday which was the largest evacuation procedure in the management agency, most of them were brought to this island in the island of nassau where the vast majority of the bahama population is leaving -- they live in houses built of concrete that are capable of resisting through the hurricane forces, and thankfully irma swing past buy the island of nassau and the northern most part of t...

Texas, we have to make sure this hurricane does not disable those operations. >> we are focusing on texas, which is going to feel the brunt of this hurricane, but there are some models that show the storm, at some point, if not in hurricane forces, headed up the coast toward louisiana. what about the danger to new orleans, would even before this, was already having problems with its water pumping facilities? speaker that's correct. the third model is that it will ricochet off the north of corpus and then go to louisiana. so we are concerned about these three different models. i talked to the r...

Could this time. >> reporter: now that you're here, what do you think? >> i love it. love it. >> reporter: you said your mother loves storm, but -- she said her mother loves storms, used to um can out here but it was hurricane hugo 1989 that made her not love storms so much anymore. why was that? >> it was just awful. tornadoes and stuff, just scared her to death. she don't really like them anymore. she did want to come today, though, but stayed home to baby-sit. >> reporter: stay safe. in 1989, hurricane hugo tore up this boardwalk with the storm surge so it is fresh in people's minds here in...

The brunt of the typhoon. >> at least 18 people were killed, dozens still missing after houses were swept away by torrential rains and heavy flooding, as well as mudslides. >> hey, guys, yeah, the storm system was a category 4 equivalent just a couple of days ago, so a m aeenacing storm acr tokyo, it pulled up to the coastline on tuesday, within 100 kilometers or 60 miles away from the population center of 9 million people there. this was the scene across tokyo, wind gusts, hurricane forces across this region, keep in mind in tokyo, the winds are really funneled and strengthened

>> reporter: hey, craig. we're still checking the brunt of this blizzard. we've had wind gusts nearby logan airport 60 miles an hour. to the south and east of here toward the cape we've had gusts to hurricane forces, 74. nantucket, 69. it's these east and north facing beaches that we're concerned with tonight and tomorrow with extreme beach erosion. high tide right now. that's going to go out, come back in. the worst of the high tides will be the next one, saturday morning around 9:30 or 10:00, we'll have surge issues. also big breakers as high as 20 footers hitting these beaches south of here...