FNC’s Rick Reichmuth on Florence: ‘We Have a Long Ways to Go’

‘The rain will move in toward the mountains and across part of the Carolinas’

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REICHMUTH: "We have a long ways to go with the storm. Some of the impacts are lessening. The winds are coming down, strongest winds, which is good news. But they were extreme. Look at the numbers. 106 miles per hour was recorded at cape lookout. 105 in Wilmington close to where it came on shore. Those are the places where there is a station to read a reading like that. Who knows other stronger winds could be in places in between that. You get an idea of the storm now. This is organized and they are saying how amazed they are with how organized it is holding together. It has plenty of moisture around it. The wind is still going offshore in Myrtle Beach. So you are not getting the storm surge. Where you got the storm surge to the right of where it came ashore, east of Wilmington there, that same direction is continuing. It’s only moved since this morning. We are now at 12 hours since landfall. It has moved 45 miles. It’s just creeping along. So if you have had the wind for all this time, you still have the wind. If you had the rain, you still have the rain. If the storm surge came on, it’s still there. We have seen spots of over 20 inches of rain. A lot about new Bern where you are talking about where the people are still trapped there. This is the radar image from it. The heavy bands have been falling over the same area time and time again all day long. This look like it’s maybe just finally nudging to the west, which would be good news if we can dry out in Morehead city. This is remaining rain that is coming. I quickly want to thank you with what is going to happen over the weekend. The rain will move in toward the mountains and across part of the Carolinas. That water runs down very quickly into that flat plain. But all of that has to go down to rivers. This is a little nerdy, if you don’t mind for a second. This is a hydro graph and show what is the river projections will be. You see the line there. That is a record crest before, 29 feet. This is forecast to get to 35.2 feet on Monday. So, a long ways from now. And all of that water just keeps on going down the rivers. This one here, northeast cape fear river is going to be at the record stage. That stays through Wednesday. The same story here. All of the rivers are at the highest levels ever. And that flooding throughout much —"

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