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City is state trooper -- >> how's it going? >> yeah. i'm so sorry. you're from the highway patrol. public affairs officer. lieutenant eddie -- >> yes. >> just quickly give us a fix as to what's happening down there. >> okay. currently what we have got is the storm's making its approach. we are urging everybody to just kind of stay off the roads at this point. the winds are picking up. and most of the law enforcement officers with the highway patrol, we have limited our responses. we're only going to be responding to critical incidents at this point. just to make sure that we keep our members s...

Like. all the power lines are standing, none of these cars have damage to their windows. when the wind velocity gets above 120 miles per hour it starts to pick up pebbles and rocks in the wind is strong enough to pick up large rocks and those rocks fly into windows of cars and beat on the side of cars, they break out windows in people's homes. you see power line down here, something in the road, any time you see a power line assume it's alive power line. it doesn't look -- it's certainly not catastrophic, it doesn't look awful and man were we ever spared. think of this storm if it had continue...

Rain is pretty surmountable for any municipality or city in the country to handle that kind of water. >> bill: we're working off generator power. your cell phone is still working. that's not bad, right? you look at this storm three days ago 140 miles an hour sustained winds and we dropped to below 100 last night. if you look for silver linings perhaps that's one of them. it doesn't take away from the storm surge and flooding. that is one thing we can point to. >> absolutely. it all helps. when we were looking at a 4, knowing the amount of rain this was going to carry and the wind velocity, we ...

To these people if there is a dangerous situation? will you be able to reach those people? >> well, at a certain point, as i mention, and that's when the wind velocity is over 40 miles an hour and when tidal waters and rainwaters rise, you're at peril. don't get me wrong, we've got our personnel that will be ready when it is safe for them to be out. we have been cleaning our drainage systems and having portable pumps in place. we're taking every precaution to prepare for the worst, but we're still hoping for the best. but the webest way is to be saf and evacuate and be in a safe place. >> i re...

That's what the weather conditions that the pilots experienced. and this is the current weather that was reported at that particular time. cumulonimbus clouds 53,000 feet elevations. that is significant. and that also gives an indication of how strong and turbulent these thunderstorms were. but the more moisture we have available, the more thunderstorms build across this region. here's the anatomy of a thunderstorm by the way to give you an indication of what kind of influence this plane feels when it goes through a thunderstorm of this size. what we have in between a thunderstorm is updrafts ...