this with the bands that continue to whip around in wilmington. the rain comes with it. it lessens a little bit but picks back up like it is now. we're in for it long haul. she's big and she's slow unfortunately. she's florence, shepard. >> shepard: thanks, bill. back to steve harrigan in north topsail. your whole section, steve, from surfside beach -- no. along topsail beach, north of wrightsville beach, up to sneeds ferry and camp lejeune still getting battered. >> yeah, we've had 24 hours of nonstop rain. this wind is the strongest that we've seen. i'm watching bits and pieces of this roof come off the house here and in to the grass here. there was a 60-yard beautiful beach there. that beach is gone. it's come over the sand dunes