And you can see the difference now, and there s already damage, the really just to my left. the cameras left there, has been torn away by the swells coming up and at points the water comes right up below the boardwalk here on the pier. and we re about 20 feet up. so, there s some sections of the jersey shore, in this area, that are now flooded out, and we re also hearing about damage, roofs, proving and apartment complex just south of us, sheered off. also a lot of downed trees and power outages that we re start to go hear about. some people are kind of showing up and you know, taking pictures of the water, of the swells, not a good idea right now. because it s still very dangerous and our location, where we re staying tonight at the hotel along route 36. an evacuation route going inland and we notice a lot of people overnight showing up and getting rooms and that s a
Avenue and seabright. that s a low lying area and that s prone to flooding even with a less intense storm than this. right now the wind gusts sustained 40 miles an hour and it could increase, we ve seen the weather, deteriorating throughout the morning, and we started along the evaluation route, route 36. more shelter there ent. it wasn t as bad, coming out here, a lot of down trees, tree limbs, we re hearing about power outages, whoa, the wind really picking up there, but again, take another look at the swell, i mean, it s really picking up here, guys and that s the concern this is going to cause a lot of flooding as the storm surge continues to increase. john, john, are you holding we might have missed that, are you holding onto the rail because of the wind gusts are that strong? yeah, it s pretty strong. i mean, there s some intensity every now and again it picks up. you know, definitely not a
But, some of the side streets are dealing with a little too terrible now. there was damage, i don t know if we have the video from earlier, though, of the apartment complex, that had the roof torn off. and, also a tree went down, taking out power lines and there has been outages as well in the the area. in terms of the evacuation, you know, some people left overnight and the hotel, route 36, two miles inland, saw a lot of people coming overnight, booking rooms. asking if rooms are still available. but, now, it seems everybody is coming back, you know and out to the beach and it wasn t as crowded, as much of a party atmosphere as it was yesterday, but certainly people are coming out and checking out the swells and the surf. but no surfers out here yet. i can assure you of that and i don t think anybody will be heading into the swells today. not the surfers but you can