eye wall and is now in the eye. now, to get a center landfall declared by the hurricane center, you need the center of the eye to kind of go over land. we may have to wait a little further up. but this right here, this area, this bright pink in here, the dark red. this is a heavy band. this is the northern eye wall. this is what s left on the powerful eye that once had 185 mile-per-hour wind. now it s down to 90. we could get hayer gusts in here and get some damage. higher tide was between 1:00 and 2:00 on the outer banks. now we re heading towards low tide. so we re not worried about that. by the time we re to the next high tide, the storm is out here in the atlantic. 90 mile-per-hour winds predicted. this is the 8:00 a.m. forecast position. here s hatteras here. now it s starting to move quicker too. by the time to mid-morning, it s off the coast and the effects will start to lessen throughout the day.
rules. so we re as prepared as we can be and we just have our fingers crossed like everyone else. so you say people are adhering, they re heeding to those evacuation rules. it must be a challenge for you because folks watch the track of this storm and they watch the news and each day, each half day it could be different. have you had any trouble convincing folks, listen, err on the side of caution? that s the word we ve been putting out and we work with our partners at the county emergency center. we held off on the evacuation notices until the last minute and we did that so people would heed those and they seem to have done that. big concern in the last few days, it has been that the storm would be hitting with surge during what s known as king tide, so higher tide, seasonably high tide. is that proving to be true?