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over 20 inches in atlantic beach. the storm is just about to make landfall in the next, i would say hour we are going to see the calmest point of the storm, the eye coming ashore. and that is the lowest pressure point as it moves on shower. shore. there is top sail beach. we think the landfill point is going to be top sail beach up toward surf city. north of the wilmington area. that s where the eye, the calmest part of the storm is going to come to shore probably in the next hour. the worst part of the storm is the eye wall that s on shore right now where they are getting the worse of the hurricane force winds. worse of the rainfall. we have had reports, of course, all morning of over 10 feet of storm surge new bern, hundreds of people having to be else are could you you had and 100 people needing rescue us. many of these people are on their homes in at least tropical storm force winds waiting to be rescued. and that s why we had the evacuations. the national hurricane center by the w