and it loops back up through our state. so the concern is here that in northeastern and eastern georgia, getting high rainfall totals. not like what they ll see in the carolinas. certainly four, five, six inches at best. the other concern here in north georgia, the gusty winds. i don t think we ll see storm winds consistent but gusts up to 40, 50 miles an hour sunday afternoon into monday. as you know, we have a lot of trees here in northeast georgia. that can cause some problems for us here. so just on the outer bands of what would be hurricane florence, tropical storm florence, maybe tropical depression florence by then. the wind is a factor here in north georgia. shepard: the chief meteorologist from fox5 in atlanta, david chandley. thanks. forecasters say this storm could slam the town of south port in north carolina about 20 miles south of wilmington. folks there facing mandatory
made landfall as a category four just north of charleston destroying countless homes and buildings in resort towns like myrtle beach. hugo killed 21 people and caused $8 billion in damage. it remains the third most intense hurricane to ever hit the united states. in 1996, hurricane fran came ashore in came fear, north carolina as a category three storm but a big hurricane and wind damage was reported as far west as raleigh-durham. 165 miles away. in 1999, hurricane floyd came ashore near cape fear. strong category two. proof that water is more dangerous than wind. of the 56 deaths, 50 were because of flooding. shepard: wow, trace. thanks. top of the hour headlines minutes away. stay tuned. , we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you to get your windshield fixed. teacher: let s turn in your science papers. tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first. student: i did mine on volcanoes.
category four hurricane, it will be the first time that north carolina has experienced a hurricane since hurricane of that magnitude since hurricane hazel in the 50s. so it s going to be a significant storm and expect to have widespread power outages. we re expecting from one to three million outages from the homes and businesses that we serve out of the four million customers here in the carolinas. talking about 25 to 75% of our customer base could expect to lose power. not just a few days either. not just a multiday outage but certainly a multi-week outage as well. depending on the severity of the flooding as well as the damage from the hurricane winds themselves. shepard: i remember seeing duke trucks one after another after another in florida for hurricanes and down in louisiana and mississippi for that matter. i m guessing they have your back. absolutely. i just came from our incident command center here in raleigh. we re well-prepared at duke
couple days ago. yeah, with a turn to the south, looking at this cone, we expect this hurricane to be somewhere in this cane. that s what we re telling people. this could change. even the impact. people concentrate on the impacts when it comes with the rain. even if you re on the edge, you get a small shift, these high values can move. well inland in different directions. so any given times, the impacts can change. all of a sudden your impacts change on the ground. there s a lot of decisiveness or there was when the storm was moving at 17, 16 miles an hour and headed to the shore. that will stop. can you explain why that is? yeah, it gets trapped. we have a high pressure over the atlantic. that is really helping steering the system. the problem is we got another high that is kind of like a bubble in the wind. this hurricane slows. by the time it hits that, it gets resistance. there s not a lot of steering.
basically without steering, it stalls out. think about that. that s 24 hours. even future in time, this goes back to georgia, even tennessee. this over here, that s sunday morning. look at this. that s monday morning. we re still expecting a depression near the georgia, south carolina border, even into next week. i keep getting questions from viewers and people on the street saying where is it going to hit? where is it going to hit? the answer i give is it doesn t matter where. everybody will take this on that coast. is there a better way of explaining that? that s the best way to do it. that s why i always compare, a couple miles an hour doesn t matter at this stage. i show the rainfall. look at the storm surge. 50% of the fatalities of it is the storm surge. we have a storm surge 4 to 9 feet along the south carolina coast. in north carolina, 9 to 13 feet. the longer we keep the hurricane winds in, you push the water