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Hurricane force gusts. it's a small storm, it's not a big storm. we're not expecting widespread wind damage. the story to watch with how much damage to be done is the storm surge. seven to 11 feet, that's no joke compared to where the water is normally at the beach. >> the great thing that we have here, bill, are all these screens around us stocked full of information. i could not help but look at the one behind me in terms of the water high. >> we're going to start watching these. what we watch is the normal water levels is the blue line. the observe level is the red line. that's currently wh...

With this storm. let's go to the barrier islands down here. some of them have some vacation homes on them. the most populated one is this dauphines island here. once this band comes inland, that's when the strongest wind will be. if you're going to lose power, it's going to be with this band. it's only a category one. i say "only" because we dealt with such monster storms this year. category one will have tree damage, knock down a couple trees, minor roof damage. that can cause power lines to go down and a loss of power. we'll see how biloxi fares. we heard from the mayor, everyone still has p...

This is is moving very fast. so we prepared for a bad storm and hopefully we're going to skate through this without a tremendous amount of hurting for people and property. >> as you know, the national weather center saying the fastest moving ever through the gulf there. and so we're watching it keep up that speed, sir, as it moves towards you and then away from you. we're getting some reporting out of a neighboring city of yours, pa pasagoula, mississippi. how are the roads doing? >> everybody's batoned down the hatches and they're staying in place. biloxi is a peninsula so we're covered by wa...

Contextually, you've seen the arc of what a hurricane can do to this area. any reflections and perspectives? >> yeah, you know, they are very different storms, as all hurricanes are. and katrina made its landfall to the west of here, much like it appears nate is doing. i will tell you that during katrina, it was a slower moving storm and so we saw a longer period with the sort of storm surge being pushed ashore and coming into the streets here. i haven't seen anything that really resembles that yet. we could get to that in the next hour or two, three hours or so. from mobile, i actually went t...

Might as well wait for day break. >> reporter: and don't forget that even after a storm comes through, limbs can be weakened and we have seen in the past in hurricanes where people are out afterwards and a limb that's weakened falls and sadly traps somebody or kills somebody. there's the dangers during the hurricane and there's also the dangers after the hurricane. so if you're thinking that you live in the area and once this passs through everything is fine, just take your time, especially not only with the weakened limbs on trees but also with the power outages. we have about 5,000 people in...