your vantage point? sean, we have seen things get worse each and every hour, i m starting to hear things break in the darkness. the electricity is out, more than 100,000 people at least along the coast of north carolina, that could go up to 3 million by the end. it looks like some of the construction on the building opposite me is starting to blow off, we have seen the winds reached tropical storm force over the next couple of hours, hurricane force, so things will get worse overnight, and the first responders are ready, the army is here. of the guard is here, from 19 states here to volunteer and help people. most of the people have listen, they are bordered up their houses, but it could be a rough couple of days for the people here, closing down the bridge that goes mid-island to the mainland. no power, getting worse and worse as the sheets of rain continued to come down. sean, back to you. sean: steve harrigan, be safe. checking in with them throughout the show, and weatherbell.c
the storms, the storm surge hits at low tide. you do not get that luck here, because of the way that the barrier islands of north carolina are set up, normally acting as a shield or protect her from these storms as they come in. instead, acting essentially as a funnel. funneling all of those storm surge, not only up here to something like morehead, but further up the river. in communities that do not see this kind of rain. for this kind of flooding. which will have catastrophic effects. they talk about complete inundation, that s where we will have rescues going on for days when the storm ends. sean: all right, leland, he will be up hours on end with coverage, because the storm is going to literally slow down, locked down there for a considerable period of time. leland, be safe. we will check in throughout the night. joining us now from california, rick leventhal standing by, not your first rodeo either. no, definitely not. this storm is much slower than
line are absolutely going to heed those evacuation orders and get out. some of the more interior people, you know, they were getting all the supplies, the generators, the fuel. but again, like you said, if this storm sits here for 24 hours, even longer, you ve got the freshwater flooding threat that you could get trapped along with that wind damage threat, the surge threat, all that water from the atlantic is going to go up the rivers and into the inlets. where is it going to go? it s going to spill out on the land. and water that you can t use. so if you re stuck, you don t have potable water. you re just sitting and waiting and putting a ton of stress on the first responders. and we know how that story goes. brett, be safe. i ll be checking in with you. i m going to be down there later tonight. i m sure we ll meet up at some point, okay? thank you, brother, appreciate it. you know, the story there is a story in a lot of the science. so you and i are covering a we covered like
exposed to it who may or may not have made plans to leave. then you have duration. when you re looking at a storm and its potential consequences. what does it mean when you up duration effect? having a stalled storm moving slowly, staying in one place? what are the additional factors? well much like with harvey, a lot of flash flooding and sometimes that s sometimes that s not fully anticipated by people on the ground. i would advise them to keep checking hurricane.gov, that s the national hurricane center web site that provides all the forecast and they have great products to tell you if you re in any watches or warning areas and heed advice of the local authorities as they know best what the local impacts will be. lieutenant commander morgan, be safe. thank you so much for the work
oh, everybody is still paying a lot of attention to the situation, sam. most of the folks we talk to here along the immediate coast line are absolutely going to heed those evacuation orders and get out. some of the more interior people, you know, they were getting all the supplies, the generators, the fuel. but again, like you said, if this storm sits here for 24 hours, even longer, you ve got the freshwater flooding threat that you could get trapped along with that wind damage threat, the surge threat, all that water from the atlantic is going to go up the rivers and into the inlets. where is it going to go? it s going to spill out on the land. and water that you can t use. so if you re stuck, you don t have potable water. you re just sitting and waiting and putting a ton of stress on the first responders. and we know how that story goes. brett, be safe. i ll be checking in with you. i m going to be down there later tonight. i m sure we ll meet up at some point, okay? thank you, b