exactly. that s exactly right. look at this here. we are inside part of the windows here. you can see the surge is halfway up inside this entrance and there s some escalators straight ahead. there s the surge. i see that. i see that. so storm surge is no joke. this is what they always warn about. they still had the storm surge potential. this is nothing like we saw with katrina. mike theiss, stay safe. we appreciate these pictures of of biloxi, mississippi. thank you all for being us with us on this special saturday. i m brooke baldwin. our coverage continues next with michael holmes.
that storm surge potential especially from the mississippi river to alabama/florida border where we could see 5 to 9 feet of storm surge innovation in these areas. places like gulfport, biloxi, mobile bay and southeastern louisiana. that s a life-threatening storm surge there. so anybody in those areas asked to revac wait, we encourage them to do so today, while you still have time. we re also seeing the wind gusts in biloxi. all the way up even into montgomery. knocking down significantly power lines here. what about the power outages from this, all the way up to atlanta? yeah, as nate is moving inland, it s going to move in very quickly but it s going to weaken. the forward motion, we re still going to expect to see tropical storm warnings, in portions of alabama, north west georgia. we could see gusty winds, trees, power line problems extending inland for a couple hundred miles away from the gulf coast.
broward county. one of the earlier curfews in place for the east coast. explain why you went with 4:00 p.m. well, i think number one reason is that because of the evacuations on the barrier island, we have left a lot of people that have left their property unattended. i mean, this is not just personal property. this is real property. this is condominiums, commercial property, bars, restaurants, you know, our fort lauderdale beach is legendry and with the barrier island, we ve had to tell people that they had to leave and evacuate the barrier island because of the potential for storm surge as you all have covered so well over the last couple days. and so now that storm surge potential is thankfully not going to happen but there still is a lot of wind, lot of rain, lot of storm effects. i mean, we are going see tropical storm winds if not hurricane winds, and we cannot leave fort lauderdale beach and the barrier island unattended so
we are halfway through october and it has been an active month. hurricane nicole barrels toward bermuda. i want to bring in pedram javaheri for the latest on hurricane nicole. it has reached category 4 strength. it could make landfall as a category 4 or slightly weaker as a category 3. a devastating storm surge potential with up to eight feet expected across the island. in the united states, at least, half of all weather-related fatalities to hurricanes landfall related to the storm surge. a serious situation. this storm opening the record books. we never had two hurricanes in the month of october come in as
i want to talk about the storm surge potential in charleston, south carolina, where brian todd is currently located. we have a few different things all coming together at once. one is the significant rain associated with hurricane matthew. we ve noticed the winds have changed from a northeasterly direction to an easterly component. this is driving some of the stronger winds right up into the tributaries and rivers. brian todd mentioned the ashley and cooper rivers. you can see them on this kind of a google earth-type image. and as we start to see the wind pushing directly up on the charleston harbor, the storm water drains can t handle the amount of excessive rain that they re trying to disperse from the canals and rivers here. so it s really working against each other. allowing for the tide to build up. not to mention the strong winds that continue to build up the storm surge. this is officially right now the third highest storm surge on