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Because we weren t sure where the storm was going to go. you talked about water. that s our single biggest concern right now. and just as your staff has briefed weather a couple minutes ago, we re worried about the surge. it s going to have significant flood iing in the next 36 hours. what the core is doing is to be able to model that is and map that and to make sure local and state governments understand the risk of this significant water hazard. everybody talks about the effectiveness of the coordination. how does it work when the storm passes and they get a sense of what kind of power is down and what kind of flooding there is? how does that go down? well a lot of this is just relationships. we always say you have to have the relationships before the storm. ....
Atlantic beach up right along the shoreline there, and north carolina is just outside of wilmington, and we are talking about so far 30 inches of rain, ali. so, again, depending upon this path, if it is not going to make a little bit of the turn, it is going to be coming out into the ocean, and now your area is going to be seeing a strong storm surge from the east or the northeast. al, really quickly, can we talk about the population here, because this is such an unpredictable storm. ov over to the last few days, we have talked about charlotte, and columbus, and raleigh, and even mentions of atlanta, and what are the cities in danger of getting at least remnants of the storm that could at least cause some serious flood iing? well, i want to come back again over here to the path map. here, you have a tropical storm past myrtle beach. and tropical storm past charleston. you have columbia and then a potent storm. ....
Per hour. hmm. you can walk faster than that. that is the rain and it is going to be heavy for houston and this is the flash flood emergency for houston proper. there is flood iing and life-threatening flooding in the city of houston and baytown and towards sugarland and i can t name all of the suburbs of houston, but you are involved if you are anywhere within 30 miles of downtown. lightning involved as well and heavy rainfall, and something, and some spots are seeing 3 inches of rain in 30 minutes. 3 inches of rain in 30 minutes is enough to cause flash flooding anywhere and it is not done. it is going to rain all night long, brooke. people are in danger tonight, a make sure that you know where to go if the water comes up. chad myers, thank you so much for all of your updates all night long and let me tell all of you on cnn state in the union in the wake of the hurricane and now tropical storm, jake tapper will talk to the texas governor ....
Hurt with the waeather, and whe is the relief going to come, bonnie? it is going to take a while, because you flooding so high in st. louis, and the tributaries flowing into the mississippi. so you will see the water working downstream and taking its time, and that is why the water is looming in memphis, and down the louisiana. and that should happen in the first or second week of january. looking at the red dots, major flooding happening right now, and in fact, 316 river gauges nationwide are above flood stage. and major flood iing in four locatilo in 40 locations. thursday, the crest occurred in st. louis and chester, illinois, but we are expect iing it aroun 6:00 tonight, but it is close, and cape girardeau as you heard from the report, record high crest of 50 feet, and shattering records from 1993. elsewhere across the country, we ....
Juan more no one more note here. the records are stay put from the st. louis northward and yes, flood iing out from st. louis t st. charles and st. peters where they closed down i-70, but west of pacific, they have shut down i-44 and extended it to 270 which is a mario thoreauway and disappoint. and the way it snakes north is where the up to of eureka is, and that is why they are completely cut off and not only one treatment plant, but two water waste treatment plants have been submerged. past fenton at the meramec, it is going to be hitting arnold which is flooding as well. then the record crest south of st. louis when you fet to chest, and historic ste. genevieve and this is the river right here at st. louis where the record of 41.9 is going to be true, but on the meramec, and this is ....