you heard three miles an hour, it is incredible. it is measured in feet, not inches. hundreds of people needing rescue last night, today, probably tonight. you saw the volunteer amber who drove here from indiana to get a young girl to safety. .with that girl s mom. you were home with your three kids, your husband, your dog. you thought the house would be safe because it is a brick house. when did you realize the situation was getting out of control? about 11:30, 12:00. when the water came into the house. it came in slowly but it just kept rising. and then my husband pushed the mattress up to the attic and we were there a little bit. the winds started getting really bad so we made a decision to
midnight. we saw a very strong surge. a half-hour, 45 minutes, a there was water to my waist. we expect that may happen tonight with. the wind blowing so hard out to sea, that may help. we ll see. this has thrown a lot of unknowns at us and at the officials who are trying to get through it. i would tell you to go get dry but that s pretty much impossible to get dry. i want to go on our meteorologist to talk about where the storm is. what the big picture is. what s the latest? the latest, we take a look. the storm is moving incredibly slow and that s the focus here. that s the reason why flooding will be such a big concern going forward. right now, western movement at only three miles an hour.
to come back. it is not just how difficult the roads are. the water will be continuing. this thing is not over even though it is a tropical storm. it will be miserable for a while. it is. we talked about, the river will crest at 25 feet on tuesday. so we ll be dealing with a flood event next next week so we have a tremendous. a rainfall that s falling. we have just an enormous amount of rain that has been with the system. yeah. your message? if you re not here, stay away. there is a process we go through to do damage assessment. there is a process to work with duke power where we prioritize the power. there is no electricity. there is no reason to come back. please give us a few days. we need to get back on our feet
come down out of the attic and put the kids on the top bunk bed. for them to at least try to get some sleep. and hopefully the water didn t rise anymore. and then while we were still waiting, my husband kept hearing people yelling for help. and we tried to go outside. but then the water got above his chest and then he had to come back inside. you can t help anyone. you just hear people yelling and you can t do anything. it is the worst feeling in the world to hear people. you can t do anything. so you could hear your neighbors screaming and yelling for help. yes. he s like, babe, i can hear
i just spoke to the city manager. he said amazingly, they have a lot of trees down, roofs blown off buildings, incredibly, no serious incidents in the town of carolina beach despite the weather they re dealing with. 600 people of the 6,200 who live here who decided to ride out this storm. they ll be checking on them in the days ahead. it is not clear when they will be able to open the town back up. one bridge in, one bridge back out. it will be difficult for emergency services to get out and get to people if they get into trouble. the winds are just intense. the rain is intense. we re kind of hiding behind the wall. the water and the rain coming down is very, very heavy. the tide will come in about