Recorded. And that goes back to the super storm of 93. Even beating the super storm of 93, that was the benchmark for many meteorologists. The one we all learn about in school. I guarantee you well all be learning about sandy. As we move through the next day or so, sandy just making its way north of new york. What will keep us in the wind. It will keep us in the rain, too the rain is slacking off around Atlantic City, toward philadelphia, Atlantic City coming in with winds of 70 to 75 Miles Per Hour. This is the eye wall, right in through portions of cape may county, new jersey. This is cape may county. This is where wildwood is, Rehoboth Beach right here starting to see some of the outer bands making their way through, too. Well start to see some of these bands, this one right in here, a strong band coming across the chesapeake bay. The winds are picking up very quickly. They will stay up all night long. Were seeing numerous trees down across the region. Were looking at a lot of Power
Theres one at 8 45 and 9 00 p. M. Tonight. Those will be the critical times because we have coastal flood warnings 1 to 3 feet above normal high tides. A full an also. Thats exacerbating things a little bit. This storm is not going up the west side of the chesapeake. If it were going up the west side of the chesapeake like isabel, it would be a lot worse than that. Well give you the day planner and get into Everything Else thats going on with this Severe Weather alert 567891 by noon alert. 51 by noon. Winds north, northwest 20 to 40. By later this afternoon theyll be gusting in the 50 to 60 mile range. Right now its still relatively calm. Youve got a little bit of time to take some precautions still. Maybe clear any leaves out of the drains. Warnings up and down from the virginianorth carolina coast all the way up to maine. Hurricane force wind warnings, marine storm warnings. Consider them the same as Tropical Storm and hurricane warnings at this point. You can see whats going on from
System usually to be in play this far north. We only have a week or two window of opportunity every year to get this. This is rare. I dont remember anything like this. You may never see this again. Lets hope so. Just an extreme, extreme weather event. Kudos for everybody for taking it seriously, for canceling schools, work, transit. I think thats easily the right call and calling the evacuations. Lets get you going with a look at our day plan other this monday morning. Weve got rain which has picked up. Moderate rain right now. By noon heavy rains and wind going on there. Temperature steady if not falling. Right now 53 degrees with moderate rain. Weve got Hurricane Force Wind Warnings from the midatlantic to the northeast. This is where i think the Hurricane Center blew it. They thought, you know, past cape hatteras, we wont issue hurricane or Tropical Storm warnings because we think its going to be an extra Tropical Storm. Well confuse everybody by going to another warning system. Thi
Dover has been well into the 60s. Cooling down from what we saw earlier in the day. It doesnt get all that cold, but we certainly dry out. Perfectly clear by 6 00 a. M. And that sets us up for some really nice weather tomorrow. But we do have some more heavy rain in the forecast before the end of the week. Well get into that timing, coming up. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with the rush to r rescue families from this burning home in the jersey shore. First responders were there to catch two children dropped to safety tr the balcony. Ted spoke with people who jumped into action to save lives. We all came rounding down the al e lee way. Reporter he knew his neighbors were in extreme danger. It happened so quick. Reporter as flames tore through this multifamily home monday evening. I needed help and i was glad to e see your face. First responders and good samaritans. This is shotgun you see in a movie. Teamed up to save seven people including three young children. John worked with