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And overnight power outages in alabama. >> let's go stral to ight to al. nbc's kristen dahlgren is there. >> reporter: take a look behind me. you can see a couple of people out on the streets. that's the real concern for officials here. because the storm is coming at night and visibility is going to be low and we're expecting this storm surge that could be six to nine feet in mobile bay, officials say you really doesn't know what you're driving into. we saw that earlier when we were along that causeway, how quickly the water comes up. when we went to drive out of there, it was one, two, feet u...

The arrival of what will be the true hurricane force winds here, which i guess, bill, go ahead and take a look at it and tell me i think we're talking about now probably if the storm is still moving at the speed it has been moving, probably in about 30 minutes i should start feeling it or less. >> i have to 10 to 12 miles from you. roughly about 30 flinminutes fr now. you are going to go through this intense rain that will start in about ten minutes it, will pick up, pick up and hit its crescendo in about 30 minutes, it will be with you for about ten minutes and that will probably be the end o...

Water is. and if we'd gone any deeper than that in a lighter vehicle, we were in some pretty heavy vehicles, that might float a lighter vehicle. as bill was saying, we see the most deaths in a storm like this from the water and from, you know, the storm surge. many times it's people in cars who go into this water and then get swept away. and so that's really the danger of people being urged to stay off the streets at this point. there's no official curfew here in mobile. some other areas have decided to put a curfew into effect but officials say they are strongly, strongly urging people to be ...

Point, but i had a question about these and i'm learning as we go through every storm. i was hoping you could explain to people these are different than sort of the long track tornadoes that we might see in the spring in the south. they're not just coming in at night when it's dark and you can't really see what's going on outside so people aren't seeing it but it's also not coming for a long distance to their homes. these like seem to sort of drop from the sky quickly, do their damage and then move on. >> yeah, not like oklahoma. i believe in our control room, if you can find that tape, there ...

Folks took shelter that were in low-lying areas that were experienced bad things with high tides and different hurricanes in the past. so i'm real comfortable with our city and the whole team and the coastal mayors, we're in close touch as we go through this storm. so these storms, the old timers used to call september storms. well, this is a little bit unusual. this is an unusual storm. moved this fast and, you know, again with just a minimal amount of damage we hope. >> mayor, meteorologist bill karins here, just curious, what did you guys do for staffing with police and fire and how long di...