around that there s nothing else out there, no wind shear, nothing but warm water and this storm is going to get stronger again. even though it lost some of its strength, it s going to be, again, in the category 4, almost category 5 category as we get later on today. right now, we have 160-mile-per-hour gusts, 130-mile-per-hour wind. here it goes, one thing that did change in the 11:00 advisory is the approach time here. now, it looks like category 4 approaching the carolina coast somewhere around 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. on friday. the storm is slowing down. and it s painfully slowing down from here to here is 48 hours. so it s going to rain in this area for two solid days. heavy tropical rain, and that s another thing other than the surge is going to be a flash flood event. rainfall that comes from the sky and floods freshwater, where this surge is going to be a saltwater event pushing over these barrier islands, could be 12 feet over those barrier
they talked about the bay, our meteorologist, that was one of the areas that could suffer from storm surge. sounds like that is what happened. that is precisely what happen. it came into the bay and came right up the river. so, your weather person before showed that drama dramatic spike that s what happened. martha: all of these areas, august has been one of the wettest augusts on record. it is because of two events. because of the huge storm that happened last weekend. that was really unprecedented. then this storm on top of it this weekend, right? yeah, exactly. that water has nowhere to go. so it is a combination of a saltwater event and a freshwater event. they are both hitting the rivers at the same time. martha: tough situations. our thoughts are with all of the folks in middlesex county