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>> i can actually walk faster than this storm is moving and that is very dangerous. there's nothing more dangerous or scary than a slow-moving, stalled-out tropical cyclone. you get such prolific rainfall rates in these rain bands. you can get 2 to 4 inches per hour easily. you can get tornado threats as well. the winds are gusting. downing trees already weakened from that hurricane. the floodwaters and the rising water table are weakening structures. so those trees are falling. there's nothing more dang russian for a situation like this. as these rivers begin to crest, it's going to create a ...

Of north carolina but now pushing inland and also adding states like virginia and even south carolina to that list as well of where we are going to see that rain. we do still have some very heavy rain bands across portions just north of wilmington and to the south of wilmington. those rainfall rates are two to three inches an hour. you have to remember, you have to add that on top of what has already fallen. and we've had some very impressive amounts. elizabethstown, 20 inches. emerald isle and morehead city, both nearly two feet of rain. swa swansboro has picked up 30 1/2 inches. the key fact...

Let your guard down with a storm like this. just because it made landfall as a category 1 hurricane, it's just sitting here, spinning, and we always knew that the main impacts of this would be the flooding and these prolific rainfall rates. and so we feel that the most dangerous part of this storm, believe it or not, even after all these catastrophic impacts and the flood damage and the water rescues, i think that the worst could still lie ahead with all this rain falling. i mean, these are warm rain processes and these tropical cyclones, the rainfall rates are incredible and they have to drai...

Possibly topsail beach to reposition when the surge comes in. right now with these northerly winds even as damaging as they are, they are coming off the land. so friction is slowing them down. but once that eye gets a little bit closer and those winds shift over to the northeasterly that's when they're really going to start ripping up the water and that storm surge is going to come up very fast and it's very likely that this storm is -- [ inaudible ] >> now, reed, usually a storm is going four or five times faster than this. what does this being slow, how does this -- how does that magnify the...

An hour. the center located close to cape fear and not moving very fast. the latest reading looking at it at 3 miles an hour. very slow. a strong point to make away from the center. not only those strong winds right around the center, it means the rain bands aren't moving much. when you look at the radar they appear to be moving fast around the circulation. if you notice the area they're moving around is not changing. what happens is you get repetitive rainfall and the potential for tornadoes with some of these cells moving onshore. that's a problem with the rainfall rates and trying to keep a...