beach. tell me how it's going where you are now. >> reporter: misery is how it's going at carolina beach. i want to show you exactly what we're dealing with. this is the beach of carolina beach. those waves are just unbelievably big. they've doubled in size since this morning. we were out here this morning, and this boardwalk, up to here, was sand. this is beach. now there's about two feet of sand that has gone all the way down. beach erosion all the way up and down carolina beach. their beach is just gone. this is what they are dealing with now. for the last 24 hours, we have been in this storm, and it just will not stop. we were at an area today that has flooded pretty badly. the tide came in, and as the rain was coming down, the surge, that water was being pushed on shore. we had waist-high water here in