To come back. it is not just how difficult the roads are. the water will be continuing. this thing is not over even though it is a tropical storm. it will be miserable for a while. it is. we talked about, the river will crest at 25 feet on tuesday. so we ll be dealing with a flood event next next week so we have a tremendous. a rainfall that s falling. we have just an enormous amount of rain that has been with the system. yeah. your message? if you re not here, stay away. there is a process we go through to do damage assessment. there is a process to work with duke power where we prioritize the power. there is no electricity. there is no reason to come back. please give us a few days. we need to get back on our feet
I just spoke to the city manager. he said amazingly, they have a lot of trees down, roofs blown off buildings, incredibly, no serious incidents in the town of carolina beach despite the weather they re dealing with. 600 people of the 6,200 who live here who decided to ride out this storm. they ll be checking on them in the days ahead. it is not clear when they will be able to open the town back up. one bridge in, one bridge back out. it will be difficult for emergency services to get out and get to people if they get into trouble. the winds are just intense. the rain is intense. we re kind of hiding behind the wall. the water and the rain coming down is very, very heavy. the tide will come in about
Thanks for being with us. talk about what you have seen. i understand you ve rescued 13 families and taking them to shelters and family members houses. what has that been like? it has been literally like i ve been saying catastrophic and amazing at same time to see the community come together but we ve been urging the individuals to get out of this area because we know that their prone to severe flooding and at some point when the water and the rain started to get really bad, i just told my husband and my friend buddy bangle that we have to go out and knock on the doors and so we got a group of people, chip hughes, so many people to come knocking on doors to get these individuals to the shelter before it started to get really worse than what it was. i understand you ve been getting messages on your facebook page as well from
It could break several records by several feet upstream. you have a lot of people living if those low-lying areas. the rain is of course relentless right now. yeah. and they were saying yesterday, the river may not crest until tuesday. we ll walk the the mayor about that. and miguel, how is 30th? reporter: windy and rainy. it is just not stopping. florence is packing a punch. 24 hours ago we were dealing with wind and rain. 24 hours later, we are still dealing with wind and rain. i know my colleague had a very, very heavy night of wind and rain last night. much of today, it was rainy, there was storm surge. now the wind is back in a way we haven t seen almost since we ve been going live in the last 24 hours or so.
The sustained winds are 70 miles an hour. you also still have the tornado watch in effect for several hours. some of the communities getting down pours are under that threat for tornadoes. right now, you ve got areas like morehead toward new bern. you have this very heavy band of rain and unfortunately, you will see the heavy rain over and over again in the same spots for at least the next several hours. you re talking about the next several hours. tomorrow, will it still be raining? yes. it is likely going to continue to rain because the track of this storm doesn t move all that much. especially in the next 24 hours. but even in the next 48. it is expected to be very close to south carolina. the center of circulation just crossed but we don t start to