is different than katrina, it s fast. the speed of the storm is fast. 15 miles an hour. katrina was in the low single digits, which is problematic because it spends more time over all of these places creating damage and dumping rain. the disadvantage of the storm is the power of the storm. the speed of the storm. 145 miles per hour sustained winds which is hard to imagine for anybody who does sustained winds. 25-mile-per-hour wind feels like a lot, imagine 145 miles at the same time. the situation in new orleans is different from a lot of other areas because new orleans biggest problem is below sea level it has lake pontchartrain and mississippi river. it floods easily. there have been billions of dollars spent since katrina, since 16 years ago today. 64 or $74 billion spent on pumps and levees and making the levees higher and things like that. but it s not all done. as you just heard from the gentleman, there are things they have been studying and trying to
whether we call it a tropical storm or hurricane, still a big impact for a lot of folks. ken, thank you very much. again, you used a key word there, stalling. a big deal. there s a part of that happening over new york city. we saw the rain last night. one of the outer boroughs of new york, brooklyn, got over six inches of water. that can change a community quickly. we re going to see that in different pockets of rhode island depending on how long different aspects of this storm stay in the same place dumping rain. even if you don t have the winds, you can have six, eight hours of rain. the reason i follow that in a storm thanks to ken. i ll check back with you later. i want to go to boston. we have a correspondent there. the reason duration matters is, if power were to go out because you have 20 to 30-mile-an-hour gusts, i understand that s not that impressive to you by hurricane standards, but if that s enough with foliage to knock out power, the back side of a storm like this cou
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tremendous flooding for the carolinas. a lot can still happen. it could still make landfall in florida. we re not out of the woods on that just yet. that s what we heard from the governor as well, prepare for that to happen and heed those evacuation orders. tom sater, thank you, you re going to continue to let us know if anything changes in the forecast. let s get to the bahamas where hurricane dorian has already made landfall. in freeport, patrick oppmann. patrick, forecasters really have no good news for the people there. they say this storm could park itself over the islands where you are for maybe 24 hours, possibly more. are people ready to endure that? reporter: i don t know how anybody could be ready. i m practically not ready for that. i mean, we re talking about the most powerful storm that any of us have really ever seen and that would just sit dumping rain, causing incredible damage. it is a nightmare storm. and another huge factor here is
have been very worried about how much rain is coming in, and then for 48 hours, nothing really has happened. but now because the center is on shore, the center is going to move to the north. and all of that rain that was south of the storm, fred, now it s going to be on land, because the low is going to move to the north. so all the rain that s down here is going to be here. then it s going to move up and it s only going to move up at 6 miles per hour. that is too slow for my liking. that s the speed almost where harvey was when it was meandering west of houston. we don t have this stor storm meandering, but moving slowly. and equally damaging, because just because it s been downgraded to a tropical storm, it s the wind. no longer 74 miles per hour but still dumping rain, moving slow, as you mentioned. still very threatening and potentially dangerous. it is no less dangerous right now than it was 5 miles per hour