a ways inland. hundreds of miles inland as a matter of fact. where do you recommend they go just as far inland as possible? what are they being told? well, you know, we have asked people to start evacuating a couple of days ago. we anticipated the storm s track is to hit the carolina coast anywhere from the south carolina line all the way up to virginia. people have heeded that advice. a lot of people have already left the area. but, for those few or those that have decided to stay to the last moment, you still have time to get out. you got 40 heading west that will take you to the middle part of the state up into charlotte and ashville and greensville salem. even going south going down 95. down that way. but, we want people to get out of harm s way. for those that are wanting to ride it out here in the wilmington area and a lot of people have decided they will try to ride this thing out. we want them to secure their
experiencing there. yeah. we just got knocked off the satellite because we had some of the strongest gusts of the night and that s why we aren t standing out there because a lot of flying debris as well. we are protected behind this hotel wall. all three of us, our entire view, which almost knocked down because of that strong gust. that s what you re going to get with these bands close to the eyewall where we are. it s unpredictable. it is like a huge thunderstorm that s wrapping around and so those gusts will come without warning and so that s why it s so important just to be in a safe place. we re as safe as possible here as well. so quite a ways inland. like i was saying before, all those emergency services in brevard county where we are, they ve been cut off. so if you need something, unfortunately, they re not going to be able to get to you until after the storm. that s why it was so important for people to get out. also, the shelters are at capacity, so or some of the shelter
well, in the first place your report just talked about 6 1/2 foot waves hitting chile and depositing a boat quite a ways inland. you know, these things are difficult to forecast and predict. i mean, you ve got a situation where you ve got to have a good source model of the earthquake, and that often takes time, as long as several hours, for an earthquake this big to generate a model like that. that comes from the usgs, and they do a terrific job under their director marcia mcnutt to get the modeling over to noaa. then they have to do a good promulgation model, and there s a tsunami run-up model, which in all three different parts of the model, you know, are uncertain to some degree or another. when you can put all these things together, it makes it difficult to come up with an accurate forecast. sorry. i just wanted to kind of put in context for people.