friday we expect to see more rain, category 4 storm, increasing rain and dangerous surf. then as we move on into saturday, we re looking for the rain to increase. beach erosion from cape cod all the way to myrtle beach. look for coastal beach flooding. sunday morning we re going to see the rain really come down. again, anywhere from 7 to 15 inches of rain around the carolinas. coastal wind gusts of 55 miles per hour. heavy surf along the coast. we move into sunday evening. hurricane center puts it still off shore as a category 2 storm. strong winds from maine to the carolinas. dangerous surfs, rib currents are going to be a big problem. then as we move into monday, the nhc keeps it off the new jersey coastline. again more problems. the rain ends for the mid-atlantic in the southeast but heavy surf, the northeast and on into new england. so we continue to track this system. the one that we were worried about, of course, that rex