it is moving at 6 miles per hour. right now it is moving to the north northwe north/northwest. it will move down the coast and in the myrtle beach area. we have people up and down watching this closely. there is one picture i want to show you as winds pick up where i am located. yesterday, we brought you images and sounds from the light station 30 miles off the carolina coast. i think we have new pictures from the light station if we can show you. it is in the eye of the storm. this light station is in the eye of the storm. that is why it looks like it does which is still. it is in the middle of it. the wind is not blowing. the water is calm. that will change as the storm continues to move. these storms are such complicated things. whereas yesterday this was ferocious where i am right now. but now it is completely still
aren t too much patrons around anyway. you always have the mayor next to you to complain. i hope it is less than expected. i pray that for everyone. safety is most important. right. and the x factor here is how will everybody and everything hold up over time. you mentioned hazel. you look at the duration of hazel or hugo or matthew as people mark their lives down here. you talk about quicker duration. that was a weird scene. we just had a fox just run out of nowhere down the beach. the storm brings out all kinds of strange situations. this red fox just ran down the beach. something i have never seen before in my life. in terms of how thing to stand up with duration. what is your concern of the
place. you owned the tackle box for 12 years. you never closed until this storm came and decided to shut it up and wait it out. what are you expecting? i m hoping the water surge on the ocean front is not so bad that it goes inside the building. it s possible. i just don t know. i hope it doesn t blow the roof off. i ve never been closed this long before in the 11 years i ve owned the tackle box. i ve owned a bar on the boardwalk for 19 other years. i ve owned bars on the ocean for 31 years and this is the longest i have ever been closed. better safe than sorry. i was listening to you. i was saying it is better to be safe than sorry. it is always hard to make a decision to close. with the evacuation order, there
impassable. extreme danger on the neuse river. the storm surge has pushed the water up sometimes with severe consequenc consequence. you will hear hurricane florence is a category one storm with top sustained winds of 90 miles an hour. that s not the story. reduction in wind speed is not the story. it is the size and breadth and duration of the storm which is so dangerous. these communities which have already been inundated with water and storm surge will feel that for another day. this will continue for 24 hours. when you have these winds, even though they are not at 120 miles an hour. they may be 89 miles an hour and when they sustain for a day at a time, that has consequences in and of itself. especially with the severely wet ground. hurricane florence, the inner eye, the center of the storm, 20 miles off wilmington right now. the storm is crawling.
areas surrounding it will feel the power of this storm for hours if not for a full day. 18 185,000 people without power in north carolina alone. 6,000 in south carolina. we have been telling you about dramatic rescues in new bern. 80 miles up the coast from where i am. storm surge with serious consequences. we are trying to get an update for you from there. in the meantime, i want to go to topsail beach. 20 miles from where i am. a beautiful coastal community here on a good day in north carolina. that s where we find storm chaser mike tyse. mike, you were riding out the storm in topsail. we heard tales of the dunes watching away on topsail. you covered storms after chased 40 hurricanes. what are you seeing? mike, can you hear me?