carolina residents expect? we re expecting anywhere from 9 to 13 feet of storm surge. and with this storm sitting here for 24 hours or more, we are going to see this storm surge push inland for at least 24 hours. multiple high tide cycles. we know how dangerous the high tide can be when you re talking about storm surge, because it makes it even higher. so this will be pushing in through all the rivers, inundating homes, neighborhoods. let s go to the floor and i ll show you what this can do. and i know, anderson, you ve seen this in your history of covering storms. when we have this storm surge, it will fill people s first floor. they go up into their attic, their second floor, they get stuck up there, they can t get out, and that s the worst-case scenario. that s why they re telling people to get out while you can, because it is going to fill people s first floor and possibly part of their second. so if it does make that slow crawl up to the coast, as expected, what are the antici
115-mile-per-hour winds. still a major storm, though. still a category 3, with gusts of 150 miles per hour, moving to the northwest at 16. so the forward speed is still the same. but you can see the eye starting to collapse a little bit. it could be going through an eye wall replacement, meaning these storms just exhale and inhale. they can t maintain that strong intensity for very long. it is expected to still make landfall as a category 3. that hasn t changed. that s what we ve been talking about the last couple of days, and that extreme slowdown is still expected, as well. we ll be able to walk faster than this storm is going, by the time it gets close to land. now, it could go on land and then meander to the south. it could stay offshore a little bit, but either way, we are going to get inundated with rain. this is going to be a long-term event. and we are going to see a lot of storm surge from this, as well. let s talk about that storm surge. i mean, what can coastal north carol
toward the panhandle of florida and into other southern states such as georgia, south carolina, alabama when we push into monday. storm surge has been one of the biggest stories we ve talk about in addition to the winds. you ll notice these numbers have lowered. it s because we ve started to see that storm surge. these areas where you see one to two, three to five, they ve already had storm surge push in so the additional amount will be smaller. the water is retreating along the west coast. as the storm moves north it will pull all that water back in, fast and furious. you do not not that you would want to be on the beach now anyway with lightning and heavy rain and potential for tornadoes but you certainly don t want to be there when that water comes
weakens. it will end up in tennessee and kentuc kentucky. because it is moving to the west, should that give people on the earn side an easy feeling or is it still bad everywhere. no, it is such a big storm, such a big storm, they extend 70 miles across. the eye is almost that big. the winds will go from coast to coast on this storm. little western move to the eye won t believe a big difference to a lot of people. the storm is going on shoerm, where we think it will, that means that the strongest push, that right front quadrant is the strongest wind and storm surge push. it puts that very populated