of the coastal parishes, as we were traveling around today. we did see guards, men and women, they were out helping to get these communities protected and working with the parishes to ensure they are prepared for the storm. to speak with comes a point where it is too late to evacuat. when will that point be reached? it really depends on which community you are in. some of the communities in south louisiana, the coastal communities right on the water, a few of them have probably already reached that point. as you noted in your videos, you have areas where unless you have a y water vehicle, you are not getting out at this point. as the storm is moving so slowly, once it gets in an area, it is just staying there, dumping rain. anyone in in a low-lying area,n these areas where they have been asked to evacuate, they really need to get out as quickly as possible.
bowl with the flood gates and if there s enough rain with slow mover and over morgan city long enough, that bowl is going to fill up with water. charles: that s the danger, isn t it, aaron? the inherent danger that everyone has been warning about. absolutely. i m sure you ve heard of cajun navy, i wouldn t be surprised if the cajun navy deployed themselves. maybe further up to arkansas and missouri if it sets up there and dumping rain. charles: are you seeing a lot of people out there? the evacuation notices have gone out, but we continue to hear that people have rode these out so many times that they re confident they can do it again. yeah, you know, i was yesterday i was down further on the coast in grand isle and i talked to a police officer there and i was asking him if people were evaluating because it was a mandatory evacuation, and his response, knowing the people of
this would be 100% planted right now. the weather is what it is, keeping us out of the field. tough thing to play right now. don t know what is going to happen weatherwise. reporter: the posts farmers posted on twitter, the video is incredible pictures. dumping rain, heavy winds, continuing, farms looking like lakes. we had our share of that. huge rain when we started to plant, only 80 acres planted that day because rain, harder to move everything. it has been that way ever since. reporter: typically bad weather hurts yields but this is
we ll see weaker wind but still a lot of rain embedded in this storm as it slowly moves through the carolinas, as it does, dumping rain, fresh water on the ground on already saturated soil. the problem is when it gets to columbia and mountainous terrain, it will cause a threat of flash flooding in some neighborhoods, maybe mud slides. sunday, 2:00 a.m., columbia, south carolina and up to the north into asheville. that s going to be 2:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. again, you can see it will bring rain to the atlantic states. flash flood warnings for north carolina, and we ll see serious flooding for rivers, including areas near cape hatteras, neuse river as well. minor flooding stages for some. again, only a problem the next few days. doesn t matter how weak the storm sounds in terms of
north carolina. don, you re next to get hit according to the experts. what are the conditions like right now where you are? reporter: jake, this is as bad as it s been. we re getting really strong bands of wind that s coming through. i don t want to turn my back to you, but if you do, you ll know that s the only way to stand up here. it s start to go ging to get ba. you ve covered hurricanes and they don t usually last too terribly long. it s not like a tornado and it runs. they don t last terribly long, but this one has been unrelenting. it s sitting here and sitting here and it s dumping rain all across the carolinas. as you know, the big problem has been flooding. we ve been talking about the flooding on the coast, but i think the real big problem, jake, is going to be with the folks that are inland. i ve been showing the storm drains here on the beach where it runs right into the atlantic. without those, when you re inland, you don t have that and the water cannot run off as easi