brother s boat capsized over here. he owns the marina and all the docks are gone. the water came up to the level of the palm trees, just before the fronds. if you had to estimate how deep the water is in these images we re looking at that your daughter captured from just minutes ago, how high do you think that is? well, it went up to the top of the palm tree. and palm trees, these are standing about 12 to 15 feet. and it the water did go up to the top of a roof. so now, a lot of people are probably wondering, so i m going to ask you. why did you and your family decide to ride out the storm? well, we didn t think it was going to be this bad. and we are in a very good, secure place. we re in a condo, four-story, that s solid construction block. i mean, it s concrete block. it s got, you know, hurricane windows.
the hurricane, the winds are coming out of west. see that? the palm fronds are blowing towards the beach there because the winds are coming out of west. the winds are coming from the land because the storm has a counterclockwise flow. so, below the eye of the storm, the winds come from the dry side. all of that air will continue to blow from the land to the sea. so, the sort of on shore flow, the flooding of rivers and that sort of thing will not be happening in myrtle beach unless there is some crazy change of storm that the hurricane center does not anticipate. the exact opposite is true north of the eye. for instance, where our steve harrigan has been all day. north top sail beach in north carolina. it s still coming in like a hurricane there. steve, what do you see? i know, shepard, i am hearing all this talk about this is a rain event. the storm is weakening. that is certainly not the case where i m standing.
of the winds you re dealing with there and how much worse would it get when it s at its peek? reporter: when it s at its peak, we re not going to be out here. this is something when we chase storms we re used to being in. when it gets about 11 miles per hour, that s when we ve got to fall back and get behind some concrete barriers. we ve established some fall back zones. but when it gets that back you re not really able to stand up. we re seeing a little bit of debris flying around. but they re mostly palm fronds. we make sure we re down wind. we re upwind from those palm trees. down from where i m standing you may see some of these palm trees start blowing over, and we re going to see the wind shift directions. so right now they re going that way with the atlantic. but if we get the backside of
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you say you have never before seen what s happening to the palm trees there on puerto rico. describe that. i have never seen that, no. when i got into town i thought most of the palm trees were already stripped of their fronds. we had sketchy data. i haven t had many updates. it feels like we re in the northern eyewall. i noticed that the pressure is starting to slowly rise. i think the eye has passed. it is making landfall to our west. i m sorry. i m really tired. i m just guessing all of this right now. i know we did not hit the eye. i assume we are in the eyewall right now. we re looking at the radar as you speak. it seems as though your estimate is right about exactly where you are.