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I got a little bit of rain. i got a little bit of wind. it was gusting to 45 miles per hour. that's not the situation where beth any richards is. you don't have power right now. >> we do not have power. we're running off a generator. not really sure how we are. but the generator's running. so we have limited -- right now. >> bethany, you're -- whoa, hang on. you're about a mile and a half north of town. you are -- you can't really get out of your house right now? i understand your stairwell got ripped off? >> we have three stairwells to different access points of our house, and two of those st...

He's got a pump in the backyard. we checked in with him this morning. it's not looking great. there are low-lying areas in wilmington that are very concerned about flooding as well. >> right. this is an important point because a lot of our reporters are in populated areas like i am right now where they've got better drainage. but a lot of people along the carolina coast live in rural areas that are saturated or in the case where i am in myrtle beach about 15 miles in, there's a river that's definitely going to flood. you've got those areas between the lake and the river where the normal draina...

They've got river rising there. they're trying to lower the level of the reservoirs. so this stuff is happening all over. where you are, something important to remember about, much of north carolina and the coast, those are estuaries. they are tidal. when high tide hits, high tide is going to hit me at about 11:00 a.m. eastern. so you've got flooding under normal circumstances. then you've got high tide. then you've got the storm surge. and you've got the actual rain that's dumping. this is the part that is going to affect people for days to come. it's not just being able to withstand the wind...

You this, this is the huge problem. this is the storm. look at this feeder band. this bright yellow. is heavy rain. look at it just tracking, coming all the way up, right into eastern carolina. this is the area that's already had horrendous flooding from the new bern area, on the noos river. that area is locked in to this heavy band of rain. we call it training. when we get situations like this, the flash flooding concerns really kick in quickly. >> yes, i've got to talk to somebody who's trapped in their house on the noos river and she says we feel like we're on the ocean. that's what happens...

Rain just north of wilmington area. we're still expecting rainfall amounts of 20 to 30 inches. some isolated spots of 40 inches. some of you may remember this is in comparison to september of 1999. the first half of that month of that year, we had hurricane dennis and floyd. that produced around the same amount of rainfall that we are anticipating with florence. the only difference is back then it was within 14 days and we're looking at the same amount of rainfall. in three days. some of the river levels are going to be forecast to exceed the historic levels. and some of those were during hurr...