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Cable lines. the entire island has no power, but for the most part, we fared well. we still have another tide cycle to go through that we have to be concerned about. we have not got any inundation or tidal surge as of last night, so hopefully we're on the downside of this storm. we pretty much survived pretty good. i know there's a lot of people around probably hurting worse than we are, but i just want to give you an update on that. >> so when is the next tide cycle? >> the next tide cycle is at basically about 30 minutes to an hour from now. so once we're past that, our plans are to go back ...

So as we move northward, we'll see this transition from a storm surge and a growing fresh threat from the rainfall. >> shepard: when does this turn to the north? >> the turn to the north doesn't come. we finally have a system out of the great lakes that will turn it to the north. this is -- we're looking at right now this right here is 8:00 p.m. saturday. this is 8:00 a.m. sunday. moving a cross south carolina, throughout the weekend slow. finally turning north by the time we get to monday and tuesday. meantime, the slow move is just going to compound the issues with the rainfall. >> shepard: ...

This is saturday evening and that is sunday morning. not a lot of travel. you will still see the continuous rainfall and continuous wind and continuous problem associated with this. eventually we have a little system over the great lakes that will come in and finally sweep all of it out. in the meantime we'll be left with a whole lot of water. let's look at the impacts. it's real important. life threatening storm surge underway in these areas. if you haven't had a storm surge west like charleston and south carolina. once the system moves inland you can see some of the onshore flow winds and st...

Another tide cycle, 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. these conditions continue, when you have the potential for the storm surge plus high tides inundating the city. you will combine all of this water that we see now starting to lap up with these after 40 inches of rain that is then going to collide tomorrow upstream here up into coastal carolina, where you have the potential for what they are calling truly catastrophic flooding, echoing what steve had to say in terms of the wind, we have not seen those kind of just unbelievable, pounding wins that have the ability to take down h. we did see some mobile ho...

Winds, we're going to see the water come up considerably. we'll see the water come up about a foot, two feet right now. we're past high tide but that water has not subsided. really see a rock in this dock behind us. parts of this dock have started to break apart because of these waves that continue to hit it. but the worst of it is going to be the next tide cycle. that next tide scycle is expectd midnight tonight. that's when we expect a storm surge of about 7 1/2 feet. unprecedented in this area. the closest we've ever seen before, 1950s. that was hurricane hazel. that was just about 7 feet, ...