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Here in myrtle or wilmington or it could be offshore. as the storm gets closer, the cone will be smaller and smaller. nags head approach would be about 60 miles per hour. here we go. when the storm is here, there's the onshore flow. there's the onshore flow and it's the rip current issue, the waves go over the sand bars. as the waves go over the sandbars, the water builds up on the shore. it's a break in the sandbar. if you're in that area, you're going to get sucked right out to sea. those are the high spots in the sand. the water comes around and gets shoved out in one spot. you can't be the...

Susceptible coastline like here. we have not talked to many people who are entirely too worried. we haven't seen much activity at the stores and aside from the mandatory evacuations in parts now down in hatteras, and okono island, we haven't seen a mass exodus off of the outer banks of north carolina. the last time that these folks had any real storm roll through was in 2003 with isabel, and technically they will get a tropical storm ef there some shape or form every two years, so you would argue that there is a hurricane amnesia here and not many people that we have talked to seem to be that ...