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Extracting those and repairing them. that s going to take time. also on the mississippi river, 22 barges that broke from their moorings in the height of the storm, the coast guard is going to try to corral those but that s going to be a mammoth effort as well. what we also have going on is people outside of the community have watched all of this going on and the mayor is urging, pleading with people that evacuated to stay out and let the teams get in and do their work and then turn back and come home. that s a tough ask when you ve been watching this go on for 24 hours and don t know what s going on with your home. yesterday was the anniversary of katrina making landfall, much of the problems there was the levies broke, they didn t hold. but millions of dollars invested there, how are they holding up, according to your reporting so ....
He said the city also lost power because of the storm. i want to bring in dereck van dam who s been involving that aspect of it. they were fearing a storm surge in tampa but when irma jogged to the east, it didn t happen. where you are there has been storm surge and quite a bit of damage. yeah michael, we were not spared the storm surge here in the biscayne bay region. we are in coconut grove, and hurricane irma responsible for thrusting up the entire atlantic ocean by 5 feet and creating what is now the worst damage in these marinas in the past 12 years. we do the math, it brings us back to 2005, we know the hurricane year, wilma, katrina making landfall as well. this moment, this destruction across the area, that doesn t ....
10,000, because that number increases so dramatically when you get from manila northward. this is the population center here that did not receive the eye. that s the only good news coming out of this entire thing. let s go back to when it made landfall right there. this whole side of the islands here had storm surges of at least 60 feet. we know that. there s nothing left of any of those communities that were on water. they re completely washed away. let s talk about katrina and compare katrina to this storm. katrina making landfall at 1:25, haiyan at 185. that seems like 70-mile-per-hour difference. here s the thing. because the power of wind increases by the cube, you know, that little thing back in high school you x to the 3 power? you have to multiply this out. hurricane katrina, the power of haiyan was 3.7 times the power ....
I heard jeff giving you numbers. i want to talk about the latest numbers i just got in on my e-mail from the weather channel. cedar island, north carolina, a wind gust to 115 miles an hour at the cedar island ferry office. alex, even though this is a category one, we are still gusting higher than that into that category two range, and also the rain report i have seen here, 7.42 inches and sustained winds of 90 miles per hour at cedar island, also in north carolina. everyone is kind of, like, oh, it s weakening. we ll be okay. absolutely not the case. katrina making landfall. its first landfall in florida was a category one. did sh some serious damage. it s still very serious. my point exactly. i m glad you hit those points, and when you just said 115 miles an hour in one spot. dwlau, that s not just category one. thanks very much. let s stay on this. stephanie, thank you. we ll see you again. later this hour, we re going to hear from the governor of north carolina, bev perdue. th ....