miles an hour. it down trees and power lines, even without power. created storm surge in areas like fort myers and naples, florida. officials are warning residents about potential for flash flooding overnight, some areas inland could see over two feet of rain. let s go now to nbc news meteorologist michelle gross. michelle, you have been following the storm all day. what is the latest? i, there we are looking at really strong storm still. it is moving inland but we are still seeing winds at 90 miles an hour. so it s still moving on to his strength. it was a very storm strong category four storm, almost category five, really wide in distance as well and moving very slow. so, it s three things that kind of came together to make the worst-case scenario. we saw a really strong winds up to 135 mile an hour wind gusts in cape coral. and i was the story with the storm surge. what storm surges is a push of wind. it s a push of water, salt water, onto dry land. so, we saw feet,
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winds. we will see hurricane-force winds. and we will see a brief tornadoes. typically with hurricanes we see brief tornadoes. we re thinking back a lot of power, so that is something we are concerned about. winds, destructive winds, of course, when you think of hurricanes why we think the winds. and we still do have a wind story. not quite as strong as we had a couple hours ago. it s going to weaken over the next several hours. but we are still seeing winds gusting up 72 miles per hour in st. augustine. 73 miles per hour wind gust in daytona beach, orlando. 89 miles per hour. orlando, you re going to have a tough night, you are hearing those winds help. i know it is dark maybe you don t have power. or likely you are going to lose your power if these winds continue. but you re going to hear those winds howling overnight. it s going to feel like a freight train inside like a freight train. and that is gonna cause some problems. so, structural damage we already had something like we
everywhere. a dangerous situation. just to recap a little bit of what we have been talking about with the new bern officials, they are pursuing about a hundred rescues, but they are having trouble with mobility because of the flooding and having trouble finding a place to put the people they are rescuing. they have opened up a building on the marine corps air base. they are trying to assist in every way they can. we saw that last year during hurricane harvey. they will hopefully work that out in the coming days. as for your friend, the construction worker, he will be out of work for the next six days but then have work for the next six years. we have been tracking the storm, adam, maybe a trope cal depression by the morning. i don t think that matters. it s no longer a wind story.
karins said this perfectly. we walk about three to four miles per hour as we are walking down the hallway. this is at six miles per hour. so it is on pace with how slow we walk and that s where we re seeing all of this rain falling. it does not have anything to do with the winds. i know with hurricanes we tend to think it is a wind story, but this is a has been a water story from the beginning. michelle, thank you so much. we have amber parker on the phone for us. one of the hardest hit cities is new bern. there are reports that 150 residents there are awaiting rescue. so the craven county emergency management spokesperson is amber parker. amber, bring us up to date on what is happening there. yes, we do have numerous requests out there right now for water rescue. storm surge and flooding is a huge problem right now in certain areas of craven county. we are sending rescue teams throughout the day and evening
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