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Strong category 3. not much of a different between the two. the hurricane center has it a 130-mile-per-hour landfall. if you're going to have 130-mile-an-hour winds, that's tornadic-type winds. extreme wind damage. then storm will weaken as it heads north. even if baton rouge we could have significant tree damage and power outages. new orleans, you're maybe just far enough away to not have significant wind damage from this storm. the landfall is west of grand isle. it could be as far west as morgan city or as far east as grand isle. but the storm surge is pretty much set in stone. along with i...

Winds maximum at 50. to get tree damage, you have to be at about 40 miles per hour. if you had told me we were going to get a tropical storm, pretty strong tropical storm landfall in new england and only have 120,000 people without power, i would have laughed because that's a really low number for the densely populated area of this country, but the storm just weakened so quickly and never had that strong of winds so it really saved them. you can see on the radar there's heavy rain around hartford into southern massachusetts and we have that pesky heavy rain band over areas of western long isla...

We're very fortunate about this. high tide we're approaching that this morning in the next three hours. many areas of southern new england. but landfall is not until noon to 2 pm. and that is going to be almost when low tide is. so, that is really going to save us significantly. that 3 to 5 feet mostly to the right of the center of landfall. we're talking about rhode island, which will were hit really hard by bob. but as far as the maximum wind gusts, the highest winds could get to the 60 mile per hour category. long island, southern coast of new england, newport. that's where we could see tre...

Landfall. notice the backside, there's no rain. i should call it the front side of storm. the right portion of the storm, the east side of it from providence to the cape. this was all expected. all of the heavy rain is on the west side of this storm. you can see the bands. the one heavy band setting up over islip and another over western mass and central connecticut. there's the location of the storm just to the north/northeast heading through connecticut. by 8:00 p.m. it's over in western mass and it will drift northward. it's not going to move much. the winds, not bad at all. most of the gus...

People have been preparing for the storm, taking boats out of the water. beaches have been closed in preparation for its arrival. there are a lot of vacationers here in new england because this is the high season for tourists. what are the immediate threats here? well, we have the potential for widespread power outages. widespread tree damage. allison was talking about that, there are coastal cities that line new england and they're used to nor'easters in the winter. that's when there are no leaves on the trees. now, full foliage means the leaves will act as almost a sail to catch the wind and...