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island of block island. a thousand san, maybe 2,500 people in season, a beautiful place. it s hard to get to. we ll be hearing stories about what happened there. you ll want to listen for that. for the rest of us, it s going to be about duration. you re going to hear about this storm and where it is, pockets of flooding and what that means for people afterwards, the vulnerable, the elderly, the heat and humidity that could last days afterwards. if there are power outages, that becomes a significant concern. for here they have different shots. this is where i live in east hampton. you have a lot of locals checking it out. thank god it s a day to observe and not hunker down and hide. the outer bands are circling in counterclockwise fashion here. there will be rain. there will be exposure in new york and in different areas for hours to come. in terms of intensity, you have
out. but this is where the brakes get put on. it s still a broad storm. nobody is going to know a difference between a 75-mile-per-hour hurricane and a 65 or 70. as it circulates counterclockwise, the concern is wrapping around to the south with the convergence to the south, we could see a 24-hour period at least of nothing but moderate to even heavy rain in areas. again, i cannot stress enough that the ground is taxed. it can t take any more. not only are the there going to be pout outages. the weakest of storms knock out power for weeks on end. this storm looks terrible on satellite imagery. it s the individual kind of microclimates that are really going to cause some harm. this is something not to take lightly. i know it s hard and we say that all the time. we re not trying to blow these systems up to something they
would say between about 11:00 and 12:00, was probably the worst hour, when you could really start to feel the wind and the rain. certainly in town you felt it. right around 12:00 when we first came on air, it started to subside. things have certainly gotten better out here. now people are trying to come out, check out, see what s going on, people spending the weekend here, still trying to enjoy whatever they can, chris. all right, shimon. i ll check back with you in a little bit. it s good to come out and enjoy, but be careful. when you test the waters, if you don t get it right, you ll risk someone else s life who has to come out and save you. my wife is a big surfer, but not on a day like today. let s go to tom sater. help me understand something, as you often do. i thank you in advance for helping me understand this situation a little better. this storm made landfall, but
island for us. chris. reporter: fred, good to be working for you today. we re in east hampton on the southern shore of long island right off new york. we re here because this was the fear of concern path early on, a beach front community, reminiscent of super storm sandy. did not happen, not going to happen. that was a hurricane that bounced off new jersey and then came here. new york will not be directly impacted by this. there will be flooding. we do have some power outages. now it s about time, this storm. as fred was laying out to you, there is a stall. why? because when storms go over land, they slow down and can change direction. henri has been the storm, if you re going to characterize it, as the storm that couldn t make up its mind. it s been changing paths. it hitting rhode island and newport is very different from where it originally made landfall which is the tiny