jon: hurricane dorian is still heading north tonight after causing catastrophic flooding in north carolina. the storm stranded residents and vacationers in the outer banks and elsewhere and cut power. jonathan serrie is in emerald isle north carolina with the latest. i m standing in front of the remnants of an rv park. this park was hit not by hurricane-force winds when the eye was passing by but a day before the hurricane made landfall by a twister, in particular a waterspout that came ashore during one of the feeder bands as dorian was approaching. in this park, the twister damaged 62 residential structures and five businesses. earlier today, north carolina
now we re going to go to north carolina where crews are going door-to-door to check on families. dorian made landfall there yesterday in the outer banks and it s now moving towards canada. jonathan seare is reporting live from emerald aisles north carolina. reporter: i m standing in the remnants of an rv park that was damaged ahead of the storm. look at this house, this mobile home turned over, completely upside down. but if i can get you to pan a little to the right, look at the neighboring structures, completely intact. the damage here is surgical because rather than damage from wholesale hurricane force winds when the storm came ashore on friday, this damage occurred during the initial feeder bands when the storm was spawning a combination of tornadoes and water spouts. and in this case, a water spout that came ashore, going through this rv park and causing a line of damage, destroying 62
torrential rain and left hundreds of thousands of people in the dark. the flooding there being called nothing short of biblical proportions, well, now hard-hit communities are shifting into recovery mode as they assess the damage, jonathan is live in emerald ile, north carolina. i m standing in rv park or what remains of it in the wake of the storm, the damage that you see here did not occur when the center of the storm made landfall but a day ahead of that when one of the feeder bands was responding to tornadoes and in this case water spout came ashore damaging 62 residential structures and 5 business structures, earlier today governor roy cooper toured the damage and offered encouragement for the recovery. we are grateful for this community that s reaching out to help each other. people who saw on tv came to
jon: hurricane dorian is still heading north tonight after causing catastrophic flooding in north carolina. the storm stranded residents and vacationers in the outer banks and elsewhere and cut power. jonathan serrie is in emerald isle north carolina with the latest. i m standing in front of the remnants of an rv park. this park was hit not by hurricane-force winds when the eye was passing by but a day before the hurricane made landfall by a twister, in particular a waterspout that came ashore during one of the feeder bands as dorian was approaching. in this park, the twister damaged 62 residential structures and five businesses. earlier today, north carolina governor roy cooper toured the damage by helicopter and on the
the latest forecast again is unpredictable as usual, but it does look like it s just going to skim off the coast there. it s been a very stressful day today. it started off with these intense feeder bands coming in in the myrtle beach area with embedded supercells and very potent and powerful tornadoes as we ve seen the images. that s how they started, and as the storm got closer, we got tropical storm sustained winds on the coastline with maybe a few hurricane gusts, but mostly tropical storm. but the big story for me in maneuvering was the flash flooding. it was hard for me to get where i needed to be because the floodwaters were just rising on all the little side streets everywhere, and i decided actually to abortion mission because i didn t want to get stuck in those flooding waters. interesting. interesting. you know, you spent most of the day up and down the south carolina coast. you posted video outside of polys island in south carolina, showing hugely powerful wind