thousand pieces of snow removal equipment but at some point they re not going to be able to keep up. that s why they want everyone to stay home. two major concerns, power outages with the high winds and heavy snow and also coastal flooding, not expected to be severe but we could see it here coming up as high tide arrives in just a couple of hours. certainly the plow drivers get finished with the route and when they re done, looks like they hadn t started, coming down so quick. ellison barber, bill talking about the wind being a huge story line here. what are the conditions where you are? reporter: normally i am standing in a part of brooklyn where you have a clear view of the manhattan sky line, just down the road here, you can see you really can t see any of it. when the wind starts to come through here if you watch the bits of snow that have already started to build up along the area, it becomes almost like a tunnel of white. that is what officials here are really worried about.