we have water from the sound going this way. and the river which flows from the north coming down through the new bern area trying to get out and it s not. it s stopping. all it can do is tile up. it started at 2 feet. it s 10 feet now. the river basin goes here like this. 60 miles northward, that s 60 miles from the coast. some of that is because of back up, the wind, some because of storm surge. that s theish other y that s the issue right now. we had the mayor of moore head tell us, brian, that s where the issues are with the sound side flooding. i ll say this first of many times, we re going to get into next week. we re going to get into the workweek next week. it s going to feel like a normal week in america. we ll have water levels still rising, river flooding going on in north and south carolina. and people losing everything they have. we will have people on
water back up in the rivers and creeks. but i do live right on the coast, so if it does push the water ahead of it tomorrow when it goes to the south, we ll be seeing the storm surge here in moore head city. mayor, about the you mentioned there s people on some roofs in some small communities. is that on the pimlico sound on the sound side flooding? that would be more towards it would be towards the pimlico sound, that is correct. but there s a lot of creeks up that way and i m sure it s the creeks that are backing up. actually excuse me, they would know. they would be on the noose river. i m sorry, noose river. mayor, all we can do is wish you strength and the best of luck along with the folks in your community. thank you very much for offering us time to talk to us tonight. mayor jerry jones. nbc news correspondent gadi schwartz is in beaufort, north
what he s worried about. he s located on padre island down here. right in the border of the tropical storm warnings and tropical storm watch there hurricane warning and tropical storm warning. the path of the storm will be like this. when the storm gets to right about here, at max intensity the winds on back side will kick around and will kick around in this general direction. what they worry about this happened with ike too, the winds on the back side come from the bay. then that floods from behind. usually the sea walls protect from storms coming at you, not from the back side. very vulnerable to back side flooding with this storm. this area by the way will get the worst storm surge and that will be on the ocean side here up around the port lavaca area as we head to port o connor and towns on the beaches. what mayor patel just said in
storm surges in our sounds and our rivers further inland which we ve had to experience in the past here in north carolina. so most people who have been concerned have been directly on the coast. now we have concerns about people inland who may be impacted by potential flooding and rivers going over their banks. let s get the latest on all of this with msnbc meteorologist bill karins. he s been tracking this storm. you expect it to have a lot of damage in its wake? damage is still being done now even though the storm is exiting. what they are talking about is the water from the storm being blown by the winds and it s piling up in one direction. thn the storm goes by and piles up from another direction. so it can get you from both sides with a storm like this. that s what we ve been watching. just a picture going around social media of a guy in rodanthe. it has about four feet of ghawa in his basement from the sound side flooding. the winds from washington to
some portions of the coast but it certainly appears that things could have been far worse. let s get to nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, which areas right now are feeling the worst of the storm? sound side flooding. the winds of really come down everywhere. there s no wind damage anymore but the sound side flooding. we have the radar source, the one that you just had up, i can show you the example of what sound side flooding is. it s when you get the winds coming on the back side of the storm from the west, usually you think of the storm surge and everything coming in from the east and that happened a little bit. as the storm pulls away, the winds are coming out of the west. we have the pamlico sounds that are huge areas. all of that water gets pushed out toward the outer banks, so that s been the worst flooding that we ve seen and that s still ongoing. it s starting to get a little better as the winds die down but one report was that it went up 4 to 6 feet of water came in in 20