the storm sits there and starts to move in to the western north carolina mountains. they ve had a lot of rain there already. saturated. so these rivers flood quite afternoon. we re dealing with floods in fayetteville, lumberton from two years ago. haven t recovered yet and they re going to get hit again. shepard: lieutenant governor, thank you for being here. all the best to yours across the carolinas. thank you. shepard: ken graham is here from miami and the national hurricane center. your predictions the last day appear to be spot on. yeah, they do. we were talking about wrapping the preparedness up yesterday because of the on set of the winds this morning. it came true. these outer bands as you said, you made a great point earlier talking about the winds of the hurricane force winds, 70, 80 miles away from the center. we can t just focus on the center. the outer bands are damaging with the hurricane force winds. shepard: do you think your surge totals will hold up?