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Also starting to float away. sand bags or not. and, again, florence hasn't actually shown up yet. so these are just those outer bends sort of producing rain, wind, flooding. we're on the noose river. we're not technically on the atlantic ocean. we have the pemlico sound. we have several channels. waterways and basically it's a place that's beautiful. this is why they vacation here, because it's surrounded by water. they flood a lot. people who live hearsay this is intense since the storm hasn't come yet. most of them tell me, i was bored. i just am sitting in the house all day waiting for this...

The storm surge is going to affect these areas here. these marshland areas are good at absorbing the storm surge. they can prevent it from going into the homes and businesses nearby these areas, but right now this marshland is inundated. the water pushing straight past it and past the street line here to these houses and businesses. you know, once high tide kicks in in a few hours, it's he going to have nowhere to go. the rain is really starting to get much heavier and whip around where we are but, again, storm surge, kate, this is where you begin to see the effects of it. this roadway does en...

In the game. we're getting some gale force winds. some rain. intermittent rain coming and going. the wind will slow down a little bit. i just saw a man walking his dog a few minutes ago. didn't seem to be struggling too much, but we did implement a curfew at 7:00 p.m. this evening due to the worsening conditions. >> what -- >> we do have some high water but, you know, right now, you know, the main surge hasn't -- hasn't occurred yet. >> absolutely. how confident are you that the structures in your city can handle, if we are talking about an 8 to 12 foot surge, that they can handle it? >> well,...

Something like that. if things go as expected. i want to point something out, kate. that's 60 miles from the beach. same story if you go down to w new bern. there again, some of the deeper pockets for flooding. areas like this that could start looking like this all because of the storm surge driving forward as brian and the other officials have noted, because the water has nowhere else to go. bear this in mind if you forget everything else. a cube of water 4 feet by 4 feet, this size, weighs as much as a car. that's how much destructive potential is being pushed inland by the storm surge tonig...

Surge is going to be the most immediate impact and i think since the storm has slowed down and perhaps because it's slowed down so much and the wind has reduced, people may get a little bit of a sense that they're kind of dodged a bullet with this one, but as all of your reporting has indicated already, this is a long-term event and the amount of water that's going to be either displaced, being pushed into the river basins and in the sounds of north carolina or falling in the form of rain over the next several days, no one's going to be out of the danger zone, i think, for quite some time. tha...