the 70 to 70 mile per hour wind gusts on long island. the wind totals have to be dropped. the reason that's important because wind gusts, 50-mile-per-hour plus with leaves on the trees to start getting widespread power outages. from islip to new york city, i don't expect any power outages. best chance of power outages in rhode island. storm surges continue even going down from a hurricane to a tropical storm.an it's not going to change. we're approaching high tide and as we go throughout the next couple of hours we will see the storm surge occurring. high tide in the next two hours. we're lucky this storm hasn't sped up anymore. then we would be talking about storm surge with the high tide.