Island for us. Chris. Reporter fred, good to be working for you today. Were in East Hampton on the southern shore of long Island Right off New York. Were here because this was the fear of Concern Path early on, a beach front community, reminiscent of Super Storm sandy. Did not happen, not going to happen. That was a hurricane that bounced off New Jersey and then came here. New york will not be directly impacted by this. There will be flooding. We do have some Power Outages. Now its about time, this storm. As fred was laying out to you, there is a stall. Why . Because when storms go over land, they slow down and can change direction. Henri has been the storm, if youre going to characterize it, as the storm that couldnt make up its mind. Its been changing paths. It hitting rhode Island And Newport is very different from where it originally made landfall which is the tiny island of block island. A thousand san, maybe 2,500 people in season, a beautiful place. Its hard to get to. Well be H
Aren t, but when you start seeing little areas of communities getting inundated look what happened in west central tennessee yesterday. a staggering amount of rainfall, number of fatalities. several still missing. if we have that kind of duration in this kind of a populated area, it could get really bad really fast. tom, that is the right kwaugs. thank you very much. i have the same feeling you do. people in certain regions where they thought they were going to get hit, it s easy to go to sleep on the storm. we have a long way to go in terms of community to community watch. we have suffolk county executive steve balone. steve, if you can hear me, he says the story of henri wasn t the intense wind we were worried about or the storm surge, vis-a-vis or concerns about super storm sandy.
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Island for us. chris. reporter: fred, good to be working for you today. we re in east hampton on the southern shore of long island right off new york. we re here because this was the fear of concern path early on, a beach front community, reminiscent of super storm sandy. did not happen, not going to happen. that was a hurricane that bounced off new jersey and then came here. new york will not be directly impacted by this. there will be flooding. we do have some power outages. now it s about time, this storm. as fred was laying out to you, there is a stall. why? because when storms go over land, they slow down and can change direction. henri has been the storm, if you re going to characterize it, as the storm that couldn t make up its mind. it s been changing paths. it hitting rhode island and newport is very different from where it originally made landfall which is the tiny
mayor came out here and it started raining on us. mayor jerry larson, thanks very much. thank god it was a non-event. let me get you out of the rain. thank you. this is east hampton. we were really worried here. why? super storm sandy and the track of henri and the reminisce sense of it being a full moon and moon tide which exam rates your up and your down. there was a mass exodus out of this area. people were getting everything they could do get ready. the state was sending all these different supplies everywhere. at this point we ve gotten luke i can with one caveat. this spitty rain that s coming out, not a big deal. this is not a very spongy earth. it s had a ton of rain in july. six, eight, ten, 12 hours of rain that gets heavier for periods of 30 to 90 minutes at a