and had this gone this way a little bit more we would have had a lot more land to deal with. right here still a lot of water and still a lot of very warm water in there to feed it. shepard: the thinks is ache it tracks over coast very close to the shore and that shallower. i wonder if that makes a difference. at this point it s going to be moving so fast and we re talking about another, say, 18 hours by the time it emerges back here and if gets towards long island. so, if it s 85 mile-per-hour storm now. my guess is going to be talking about 75 mile-per-hour storm as we get towards long island. so definitely going to weaken a little bit. but it s going to hug this coast and pummel all these areas. shep, look at thee rainfall projections here. that s over 12 inches of rain across the delmarva and storm surge, even though you won t get awflted storm surge necessarily in here. a lot of water that s pushed up in towards the chesapeake bay, in towards the delaware bay. a lot of it ahead