upwards of 11 feet of a storm surge and that ll put water into some of the homes and businesses along atlantic avenue which runs along north south here and a block off the beach and in land about a mile or so which runs the link to florida and a lot of real estate there and a lot of expensive real estate so folks who are hunkering down there might anticipate getting water in their home if they have not sandbag their homes. officials are telling folks, just because the eye passes, it does not mean the storm is over. it is a large system. we do anticipate that there will be hurricane for us and tropical forced winds that ll blow around this area for hours after the eye has pass and possibly late into tonight or maybe into saturday morning. one last thing and a lot of folks are not thinking about this for a good reason because
patrol? well, we are 45 miles an hour. some where around 10:00 p.m. last night, we had to pull our officers off the street as the winds got over 45 miles per hour. we got them right back out right away ed cunningham, best of luck going about your job and all of you staying safe. thank you for what you do. thank you. lets go to our reporter, shelby danielson. we spoke to you the last hour, we could barely hear you because winds are blowing at you and how are things right now? reporter: well, the rain has slowed down a little bit. the rain when we were talking earlier, it feels like hail against your body.
or 80 and quite a bit of rain right now. i understand looking at some radar and i see it is toobt hit us. that s going to be i am sure it is 70 miles per hour for the extended period of time. that s what we have been expecting now for the last forecast, for the last eight to ten hours anyway suggested that we ll get hurricane forced winds starting from 4:00 this morning until 10:00 and it is going to get pretty intense. the worse part is you got to come. i got to tell you, when you are anticipating this and via radar is just poupon you. what is your concern of cocoa beach, you are really worried about storm surge? alex, my biggest concern is we did not get enough people evacuated. really? yes.
significant in those kwlareas lets talk about the storm surge and what could come from this with regards to cape canaveral is like its own island there. yeah, storm surge is far a large with hurricanes and the most damaging. they re most likely seeing some of the most significant surge that they re going to experience now and throughout the morning hours. i am sure we ll find out how bad it is going to be later on today. i can tell you that there are significant on shore winds pushing the water to the land and even if the strongest winds don t make their way to the cape canaveral area, you can imagine all of those winds pushing those water in those regions.
conditions right now. the winds have been howling and the rain is coming down that everybody is talking about continuing to build there and pouring over the beach at this point. still power here which is amazing when you consider how strong this wind has been. alex, it is going to get worse k according to fraorecasters. this thing is continuing to move up the coastline and there is that chance that continues. it could loop around weaker but still bringing problems here again early next week. it is been a rough go, going to continue rough for the next 24 or 48 hours. thank you very much. lets go back to ed cunningham. a lt what point would you gae it is safe for them to get back out there and continue to