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This is turning out to be a dangerous impact from this storm even though it has not made landfall. the closest brush we will see his this time tomorrow morning for north carolina, the outer banks. here is future radar, approaching hatteras, this time tomorrow friday as point of landfall. landfall is the lowest pressure when the center comes on shore. the effects of this are going to be widespread for the carolinas. here s the tropical models in very good agreement, the storm in the last 3 or 4 days has been spot on from the national hurricane center. they ve done an excellent job of the forecast. we all knew the carolinas would potentially take a direct hit from the storm. additional rainfall we could see upwards of 8 to 10, isolated amounts of a foot of rainfall in this area is vulnerable to flash flooding. here is the latest track, category 3, we anticipate a ....
Wilmington. pete: eye wall is the strongest wind right inside? steve: we will get out of your way. janice: that s happening right now. wilmington 91 mile-per-hour gusts. that s happening. the landfall and here is. so wind gust that we are seeing right now. there is wilmington moments ago. 91 miles per hour. we have. so buoys out there 80 miles per hour. some of the winds have certainly topped category 3 strength in the last 12 to 24 hours. so here is florence making landfall. the core of the strongest winds coming on shore and the landfall, the eye making landfall is the calmest partly of the storm. the lowest pressure point and that will certainly happen probably within the next half hour. so there we are right now. you can see the worst of the winds west of wrightsville beach. and we think perhaps a landfall of the eye, the center of the storm anywhere between top sail and wrightsville beach. but that is just a point of history right there. the worst of the winds happening right now ....
Streetlights still on. the scary part of this is that we get these conditions now and until this gets past us, and it s moving so slowly as they say now about five miles per hour, five knots, maybe. until it gets past us we will be in these kind of conditions. this is why we are here. because this is where we thought the center of circulation would be coming ashore. as you can see now. repeat myself. we are looking at cat 1 storm here with the kind of conditions we are looking at. can you only imagine if this was a much stronger storm. we certainly wouldn t be standing here right now. and i don t see huge debris, you know, you say well you are standing out there could you be hit by something. we have picked this spot where you would have a pretty good sense of any debris coming at us. at this point i m not seeing any debris, which is a good sign in that that means in terms of damage, i mean we may get power lines down ....
In rock hill. we see the storm, it looks like it s going to go from the coast, myrtle beach area and then down through the middle of state where columbia, the capital is. and then it looks like it will go up to clemson and spartanburg area. do people need to evacuate those areas or are they okay in their houses? at this point it looks like it s going to hit tonight. i would say if you are in the low lying areas go to safe places as has been mentioned early in the show you go to structures that are substantial, concrete. something that you feel safe about. buff, you know, you really at this point, just trying to do the best you can. trying to ward off what we are seeing in wilmington and wrightsville beach and hopefully the safety is what we have got to look for. i will tell you the police are very concerned about being able to get arranged as the downed power lines that you see that when they hit in wrightsville and the water is not a good thing to maneuver. in that s what they are w ....
Obviously because of the transformer flashes we have seen. but that means that we don t see buildings breaking up and destructing at this point. and we certainly hope that continues. and if the wind speeds stay the same but i don t know. i don t know exactly how much more punch this thing has got. a lot of it is still out over water, which is why we are still getting this kind of rain. we will continue to be here and see. we could be here for a while though. hopefully not here tomorrow. steve: it sounds like, jeff, according to janice, the eye wall of the storm has started of to make landfall. the eye itself has not. i m looking south carolina, electricity and gas says that some customers could face week long power outages because of the storm. what sort of electricity, as we watch the transformers blow in your area, what sort of electricity are they operating on with those lights? is it battery? is it generator? what is it? this building, one of the ....