chance of getting one of those bands that moves over and getting incredible rainfall totals. lots of flooding with this. we re probably not done until sunday evening to monday. we are in for a long haul. shepard: back behind you, the 45 is in the middle of a national forest. that 38 that you see there, that is emerald isle, indian beach. atlantic beach. i just talked to the mayor. 38 inches of rain. they cannot take that. they can t. maybe 45 is there or 50 miles that way or that way. still wants to go somewhere. water wants to go to the lowest point. it s gravity and trying to get to the ocean. you have the ocean piled up to the shore. the water doesn t have anyplace to go it s going to spread out and flood across the area. shepard: rick reichmuth, a long way to go. thank you. as the feds prepare response teams for hurricane florence, the nation s top disaster
rain and storm surge. just keeps battling the coastline as the winds keep on for a while. it s not just about the initial here. you think about getting hurt force winds. the damaging part is when it lasts. shepard: when the center of circulation goes over land, will it begin to rain itself out or will that take time? it takes time. there s so much moisture in these systems. you really look at the rainfall. that s one of the points that we ve been making. i keep stressing it. it s not just a coastal event. these rainfall totals are staggering. up to 40 inches of rain. inland, look at raleigh. 6 to 10 inches. virginia, 4 to 6. asheville possibly. that s just in general. sometimes you get these systems slowing down and you get training effect with storms going over. values could go up. they slide in different
the worst of it here along the coast from the prolonged period of wind and rain. the storm surge you ve been talking about, take a look at the wind bars, this is saturday. we re going to continue to see the same on-shore flow here. so the water piles up there past cape fear-wilmington and in the pamlico sound, goes towards new bern. towns far inland that are on and inlet or a river like the pamlico river. all the water will stay in there and the storm surges are going to be really extreme all the across the interior section. factor in the rain. this is the gfc model putting out numbers like 45 inches. this is incredible rainfall. because we re so close to this time frame, we start to get a little more reliance on these numbers. the european model stretches farther south in towards parts of south carolina. the point is, we don t know who it will be that gets these numbers. but you have a big swath of area that is getting a lot of rain and any spot really has that
the storm sits there and starts to move in to the western north carolina mountains. they ve had a lot of rain there already. saturated. so these rivers flood quite afternoon. we re dealing with floods in fayetteville, lumberton from two years ago. haven t recovered yet and they re going to get hit again. shepard: lieutenant governor, thank you for being here. all the best to yours across the carolinas. thank you. shepard: ken graham is here from miami and the national hurricane center. your predictions the last day appear to be spot on. yeah, they do. we were talking about wrapping the preparedness up yesterday because of the on set of the winds this morning. it came true. these outer bands as you said, you made a great point earlier talking about the winds of the hurricane force winds, 70, 80 miles away from the center. we can t just focus on the center. the outer bands are damaging with the hurricane force winds. shepard: do you think your surge totals will hold up?
people left there. hope is good. steve harrigan is in north topsail beach in north carolina. one of the areas in the bulls eye. north topsail is. how is it going, steve? shepard, starting to feel it now. the rain is coming down. good wide caps behind me. a beautiful slate gray sky. the beach begins to disappear little by little. we ve seen people get out as late as this morning. getting out is not easy with airlines cancelling, airports closing, lines for gas. a lot of shortages. we spoke to one person that has been keeping their gas station open as a sign of aid to the community. here s that person. i m so personally involved in this community and they are with us that we re doing what we can do because they would do it for us if the shoe was on the other