flooding, not only from the surge but from heavy rain that will be an issue as well. five to ten inches of rain easily. some places more. as you know and i m sure you ve been telling some of your viewers, these regions have seen so much rain this august any additional rain is a problem. so a lot of factors coming together and that s making pore a tense couple of days. adam, when was the last time that new jersey, the beach or shoreline saw something like this? what we re anticipating such a storm? well, we had floyd that made landfall in 99. that was the last system that made landfall. but there have been previous systems that have kicked up the surf and caused problems. i was talking to people earlier, even when you get for easters here, we get one every season, sometimes more than one, there s a pier way down the road that always crumbles. this is an area that takes it on the chin. an area where people are used to storm surge and that kind of thing.
and it will be closed all the way through, basically, monday morning at the earliest. so the officials are doing the right thing, here. it looks like we have a couple more high tides to go through. that s when it will get interesting. saturday will be the day that coastal new jersey goes through the transition where the winds pick up. you see the outer bands and once we hit a high tide into saturday night, we might be talking about water here. where i m standing on the boardwalk and there will be another high tide on sunday morning between 6:00 and 8:00, depending on where you are on the coastline, that could be the doozy. that s when the central circulation will be close to us. that will be the worst high tide and the worst winds. as the system moves away, i would say overnight sunday into monday, that s when things will calm down but the surge is going to be immense. i ll be standing on an area, basically, i won t be able to stand on this tomorrow, inland
flooding, not only from the surge but from heavy rain that will be an issue as well. five to ten inches of rain easily. some places more. as you know and i m sure you ve been telling some of your viewers, these regions have seen so much rain this august any additional rain is a problem. so a lot of factors coming together and that s making pore a tense couple of days. adam, when was the last time that new jersey, the beach or shoreline saw something like this? what we re anticipating such a storm? well, we had floyd that made landfall in 99. that was the last system that made landfall. but there have been previous systems that have kicked up the surf and caused problems. i was talking to people earlier, even when you get for easters here, we get one every season, sometimes more than one, there s a pier way down the road that always crumbles. this is an area that takes it on the chin. an area where people are used to storm surge and that kind of thing.
places and the worse will be in, pimlico sounds of eastern north carolina. that s what we re expecting tonight. we ll probably see six, maybe 10-foot storm surge and that will cause significant damage and a lot of the communities like in newburn, north carolina, and further up the coast, the roanoke rapids area, that area is very prone to storm surge flooding. they ll get theirs the high tide cycle tomorrow morning until they go to the early afternoon and further up the coast, once we get landfall it looks like with the storm coming north, it will make a t where it intersects the coast and that water won t be able to push sideways. it will pile up so you ll see the equivalent of a category 2 surge on long island and sections of rhode island. new york city looks like it s on
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