folks need to continue to pay pa attention to their local officials, heed their warnings, stay inside, stay somewhere safe. don t try to go out in the t int middle of the storm because we a don t want to putus those folksn jeopardy. we want to make sure their safe so that our first responders cae focus on those who are mostsp i need. brian you ve been in this t situation before.n before how do you fight hurricane fatigue? we ve been covering this g hurricane now for the better foh part of a week and as fafrt forecasters, we know that hurricanes change.icanes but how do you make sure people follow through on the mandatory evac weighi evacuation orders before they start tuning it out a bit? this is the fourth year in a evs be row inh ye florida where we re f dealing withlori major hurrican. you try to explain to them whatm our thought processes are.s why you re make the decisions that you re making in terms of shutting down schools and scho shutting down government, ol closing roads,
news. no, it s bad news. it s bad news when this storm slows down because that means it hovers and soaks the region in a life-threatening way. so thank you for making that point, john. we ll check back with you very soon. but first, president trump is already touting the success ahead of hurricane florence even hitting. the political test for the president, now. can i get some help. watch his head. i m so happy. whatever they went through, they went through together. welcome guys. life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you.
duration is going to impact the counties and the states, the abilities to potentially respond to this, because we re not going to be sending people out in unsafe conditions, so it might take some time before we can begin recovery operations. i m looking at live pictures, steven, right now from buxton, north carolina. some of the outer banks, again, north of where both you and i are right now. looks like some of that rain is already beginning to hit. you can see the seas tossing and turning a little bit. it s low tide right now, or lower tide right now. the problem, as you noted with this storm, is that the surge threat is over a full day, maybe even full days. that s several, several high tide cycles. you ve been here in the region for some 20 years. have you ever seen a storm that had this array of threats. it s been quite some time. i think the last time we were challenged by something of this magnitude with respect to storm surge probably was fran in 1996.
the rainfall amounts are going to add up and could be very comparable to what we ve had with past historic storms. so this could be one for the record books, with storm surge and, as well as the rainfall. and that s so important to bring up, because when we say is it slowing down in terms. speed at which it s moving, that s a bad thing, it s a terrible thing. it means that there are more people who will feel the exaimp for a longer time. so if you re in wilmington where you are and further south where i am in oak island, once we start feeling tropical storm force winds, how long will we get that? how long will we be under the threat of storm surge? the storm surge threat can last over the next couple of days, because of that slow motion. the tropical storm force winds for a few days, as well. and it s such an expansive storm that it s not just going to be confined to where the center of it goes. a few hundred miles across, the impacts with thing. and unfortunately, a slow
adviser, meteorologist, i should say, for the national weather service. he s based in wilmington, north carolina, just a little bit north of where i am. and steven, this storm, it really is a multiple threat. yeah. we re seeing potential deadly storm surge and catastrophic rainfall as this storm slows near the coast. so it s not just going to be the wind element or the surge element or the rainfall, possibly all three of those, as this storm approaches. so certainly a life-threatening situation that we had to prepare for. a few minutes ago, we talked to our meteorologist, chad myers, who said the hurricane was moving in toward the coast at 17 miles an hour. but you ve just begun to see some signs of slowing down. yeah, it looks like that trend in the models that have been showing, and of course the national hurricane center s forecast with the slowing trend will occur today. and that s going to be so unfortunate, because with the storm in the area for so long,