many as three million of the four million customers without power. not just for a day or two but some could go for as long as a week. the importance of this time to prepare cannot be overemphasized. sandra: senator, i know that you were just on social media retweeting to your residents who follow you. areas far from the coast are also a risk of severe flooding and a very important point as we talk about the coastal areas as this storm moves inland, so many more are in danger. one of the things that we oftentimes miss during these events is that we think about the coast as just being those coastal counties. but the inland communities, when the storm sits for as long as it is going to sit, what you ll find is that water flows through the rivers and frankly rivers are a hard place for the water to find a way out. what they ll do is start to