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Hours ago and the storm has moved 150 miles is all in the last 30 hours inincredibly slow moving storm. big gauges. here is our concern rivers at major flooding. that's the purple, moderate flooding is the red. take a look at what happens major flooding going on down across south carolina, north carolina, in across parts of virginia. the rain that's going to fall. going to down all the rivers and seeing a lot of rivers well above their record levels that they have ever seen and likely stay that way moving in across parts of sucre, myrtle beach offshore flow. anywhere to the east of that still ...

As bad. you are beginning to hear words from county officials that they may be dodging a lot of the worst. the winds are strong and they are blowing behind me. it's the offshore flow that is helping things out. the ocean i showed you a couple of hours ago is blowing out to sea. we are at high tide and when the winds switch, i think that's going be advantageous high tide. a couple of cars are out. north of here, the police are no longer responding to emergencies. in the county you are in, they are reporting no major rescues and no hard core damage of any

So the prolonged event. and interesting enough, with time, some people even further to the south that have offshore flow, give it some time, be patient. that could switch the wind direction and start pushing the water in. >> we have seen a change in wind direction. miguel was just talking about that in carolina beach. we have seen that here in wilmington. tell us how that impacts the feeling on the ground. >> yeah. it makes a big difference. you start getting these wind shifts. but with time it really becomes about the water. when we talk about the wind shifts, let's think about it this way. w...

What's going on here. north myrtle and myrtle, still have offshore flow coming in around the storm and around this way. offshore flow not pushing storm surge to you yet but getting you wet. every time one of these bands comes by, the winds go up about 10 miles per hour. you get one band and then it's 45 miles per hour. the next band, 55 miles per hour. so this is going to be an all-night affair for you. if you're to the northeast of the storm, it has dried out some. some. there's still a lot of moisture down here, over the ocean, but let it rain in the ocean. we don't care about that. as it co...

>> shepard: that eye of the storm heading towards columbia and greenwood and anderson in gainesville in that direction. >> it is, seems like the forecast is pretty close to on track, really slow movement, even becoming a storm or so weakening with the wind, 8:00 a.m. sundays that's not a lot of real estate, still having the center in south carolina but an important point to make here, some areas in charleston as he had offshore flow. if you move the center in lynn, the flow around that can actually bring some people hire and water and some flooding even days after landfall so you have to be ca...