Quickly went to make mention we have an area of low pressure that could develop and bring rain along the coast of texas, this is separate from florence, several systems we are watching but the bottom line is we are uncertain. We are uncertain thursday and friday what happens. That cone of uncertainty getting wider. Bottom line North Carolina, South Carolina, georgia. If it stalls this is going to be a prolonged impact along the coast. Remember harvey when it stalls. Rob if it stalls over the ocean it could be good news in the Wind Department because it might lean less powerful winds. Going back to diana a couple decades ago. It stalls, moved southward before making landfall and it weakened to a category one. That would be awesome. However we want people to still
keep your eye on the ball. This is a category 4, still a major hurricane. We have to finetune the forecast. Along the coast, carolinas, georgia, virginia, keep watching. Jillian people who live along the North Carolina shorelin
category for but storm surge expected to be 9 to 13 feet, guaranteed flooding if you have the rainfall in excess of 25 inches if that does indeed stall, looks like it will, it was two years ago hurricane matthew which was a catastrophic flooding event brought that, a little bit him and, 25, 30 miles, entire rivers, the situation where people were underwater 15 or 20 feet and couldn t get out. the mayor here in atlantic beach, richard porter, his message for residents very clear. get off the island, don t put our first responders in harm s way. don t put yourself in harm s way. get off the island. honors a mandatory evacuation and get out. if you do try to stay here and survive the wind, it is likely this story will be one of flooding.