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Eye and you can see the intensity is starting to grow. and as a storm chaser, my whole goal is to get into that eye of the storm. to get into the worst parts of that storm. so i m, you know, hour minute by minute even watching the models, watching the nhc, the national hurricane center s forecast. i work for a company called my radar. we have a hurricane tracker in there and i am watching that hurricane tracker to see where that eye of that that hurricane is going to come across and that s my goal is to just maneuver myself. i am here in morgan city right now. but it looks like, you know, as this thing comes ashore, it will wobble to the east, wobble to the west. and lately, the trend has been to wobble a little bit more to the west and looks like maybe, homa, louisiana, might be the dead center of where that eye hits but that can change. there is still probably, you know, at least 12 hours, maybe a little more until this storm makes landfall and a lot can change between now and th ....
Hurricane harvey did to texas last year. however, the topography of north carolina and south carolina are much more flood prone to the topography of houston. set a different way, i think that north carolina and south carolina, by far are in much greater risk if the storm surge, and certainly the record rainfall is going to be a huge challenge in terms of trying to mitigate this disaster. jon: some of these hurricanes blow through quickly. the eye hits, the day comes, and you have blue skies and you can get around. but if you have that kind of flooding that is going to last a couple of days, it is going to be hard to get people into the positions where they need to be. convoys of trucks and so forth really going to have trouble moving around for the next ....
And this is a historic moment. you know, we have been here comparing this storm to andrew. andrew is 25 years ago. it was a smaller storm than we have here in terms of the size. we have a new generation of flori floridans that haven t experienced anything like that. it is a powerful, dangerous storm. this will be their big one. i want to show our viewers that drone video which basically the whole island was destroyed. is this what the people of parts of florida should anticipate in the coming days? this island got hit by the eye of the storm. maximum winds, maximum power of that hurricane. where this eye hits, as it is approaching southern florida and it does have the potential to reintensi reintensify, you will see winds that can do this damage to buildings that might not be as ....
Severe weather center. we heard nick talking about he s in the eye of this thing now. once that eye hits what does that mean for charleston and the trajectory after that? well, that means we re going to set a significant surge in charlton after the high tide. a few hours away. the high tide surge in st. augustine created deadly flooding. same tour tybee, and now it s moved away from savannah. into hilton head. into ed distoe island. into folly beach. charleston, we re expecting a big surge from you, especially at that high tide. over six feet. we had almost seven feet in savannah and tybee. we know there s damage there, we don t know how much just yet. we also know there s going to be fresh water. rain falling, 10 inches of water ....
Will make landfall, and the fact is, they expect this storm to have heavy storm surge and heavy rainfall, along the northern gulf coast. so, if there s a focus on where the eye hits, a lot of other people might be affected too. now, we just came from the lower ninth ward, the neighborhood that was decimated, of course, by hurricane katrina. a lot of the people there are evacuating, but we did find a few that say they do plan to ride this out. they say they trust the army corps of engineers and the improvements that have been made to the levee system, and they feel that hurricane isaac just won t be as strong as hurricane katrina. martin? nbc s gabe gutierrez. thanks so much, gabe. stay with us, the day s top lines are coming up. we make a simple thing. ....