brian todd in hampstead, north carolina. brian, i understand that you're getting it there. what's going on? >> reporter: right, don, this is the inter coastal waterway behind me. the waterway obviously between the mainland north carolina and the outer banks, some of the barrier islands. if it looks like i'm standing in the intercoastal waterway, i'm not. i'm standing on old landing road. right now this road and the inter coastal are pretty much one in the same because as you can see the storm surge is coming in and this road is starting to get flooded. i'm in a few inches of water. not severe right now, but we know it will be severe. we don't believe this is even high tide yet. that's not even coming for a few hours, but as you can see how low-lying this area is, panning to my left, your right, you can see a little bit of white caps out there on the inter coastal. it will get much worse in the coming hours. it's already with just a little bit of rain starting to fall here and a little bit of wind coming. it's already causing obviously some storm surge and some flooding in here. this is how easily this place