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Moving over the southwest coast, where we got this devastating storm surge over fort meyers and naples. the reports i m hearing, absolutely catastrophic down here. i m fearful of what we re going to see when the sun comes up. now the center has moved inland, sort of right around sebring, if you ve familiar with this part of florida. these bands are indicating rain rates of four to 5 inches an hour. that might need contextualization. that is a tremendous amount of rain. i m pretty sure flash flooding is occurring as this moves off to the northeast. in term of peak surge i know you haven t seen numbers like this many times in your career how dangerous is it right now, and how long will that situation continue? well, the waters are still elevated. so, the peak storm surge, i think, has passed. waters are trying to come back ....
Rain on the soil, so the more you saturate the soil, the more trees you can knock down, the more power lines you can knock down. you re looking at debris. you start really getting this find of wind, structural damage, things blowing in the wind. that could be particularly dangerous. we re not even done with the storm surge. we have been talking about so much rain and wind. with this movement and this direction, you can still pile the water into some of these areas. wee talking some areas that got the storm surge early may still have yet to see their peak surge. this is still a life threatening situation. when you look at that, what is the point? what is it you see on those maps and projections that lets you know that you re finally in the clear? when this thing finally gets out of here, alicia, when we start seeing the system get well to the north, but there s another problem we have, too. this rainfall, all this moisture has to go somewhere. we look at these huge rainfall totals, ....
This is not nearly as strong of a storm as katrina where the speak surge was 28 feet. but it is high enough to be a risk to life for anyone out at the coast. ed rappaport at noaa, thank you. we re also talking politics this hour, the president trying to revive health care talks, this time with democrats. ....