two to three inches in a few spots. so we are about done. not everyone is done yet. we do think it could make landfall in nova scotia as a hurricane on saturday. yes, dorian, unknowing from the beginning and continuing that way all the way through the weekend. even on cape cod, a little sliver here, nantucket, martha s vineyard, the indicate, to tropical storm strengths. i don t expect damage or anything. it will make for annoying saturday morning as it kicks on through. hallie, the concern right now is with that sound side flooding out on ocracoke. once we get past that, it will be better. the mayor of morehead city are having to send out water rescue
people are without power. in the thick of it all is catie beck in nags head, north carolina. katy, in the last hour since we talked to you in the last 50 minutes, we ve been getting reports and thit is getting mor and more dangerous on the coast of the outer banks on sound side. i know you re on the oceanside. tell us what it s like. reporter: absolutely, hallie. we can feel that. right now we are getting slammed with wind and rain and conditions do seem to be intensifying here on nags head. the outer banks has fared pretty well during this storm in terms of power out ainges and flooding so far. but we ve heard in the press conference there s over 200 people that are strand right now on an island. the road out to the island sem passable. the governor said that s his to concern, how am i going to get those people to safety? so, yeah, we are not through the worst of this yet. in facts, i think this might be the peak of dorian for the outer banks right now. the conditions that we re see
safety. making sure people are doing everything they can to stay prepared and stay safe during the storm duration. on the backside of the storm, our biggest concern is we expect significant sound side flooding. initially, the sound is going to be sucked out with the wind direction, but on the backside so when people think it may be calming down, we anticipate storm surge from anywhere from 4 to 7 feet aboveground. for anyone who is planning on staying behind, even though there is this mandatory evacuation, what do you want them to do to stay safe? stay inside. that s why we ve put this curfew in place. oftentimes, people want to go out and look and be the first one to snap the footage and film of what they re seeing, but they need to stay in and stay safe. we re expecting hurricane force winds for a number of hours starting in the early morning hours. and then like i said, the storm surge. and until we can get out and assess damage at whatever point tomorrow afternoon, we just ne
until midmorning or even later based upon what the conditions might be. so let s find out where hurricane arthur is at this very moment. meteorologist bill karins is tracking this storm. good morning. what are you seeing? good morning. and happy fourth of july. the storm itself made a six-hour journey over the outer banks of north carolina. it s now exiting into the open atlantic. whatever damage has been done, probably about 80% of that damage has already occurred. we re still probably get something sound side flooding as the storm exits the wind direction shifts and the water from the sound is coming back towards the outer banks and that will do some damage. new update still has it as a very strong storm. looks impressive thane satellite imagery. the back side is cutting off quickly. the sun will be out this morning in areas like wilmington who last night were dealing with this storm. midmorning until noon, the sun will start coming out in north
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