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Storm sweeps through East Coast with flooding, high winds
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A tropical storm brought coastal flooding, beach erosion and wind gusts over 40 mph to the East Coast, prompting flash flood warnings and water rescues.
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Take a live look at Virginia Beach. This is courtesy of Leslie Hudson and yeah you can see
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the beach is pretty angry down here in this region as well Melissa. Yeah it's not an easy
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go of things. They have kind of worked through that beach to kind of navigate some of the ongoing
00:13
tidal flooding concerns here and so far so good in Virginia Beach. People have been staying home
00:20
as we've been checking in on them and you can see just how many swells are coming in even with a
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little bit of sunlight out there in the water. Part of the reason why we've been covering this
00:30
storm so much is because of how it's interacting with some of the other weather patterns around
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the northeast. There is a low pressure system that's been diving through the Great Lakes and
00:40
over the northeast so that's going to all tie into this storm in the course of time. However we also
00:46
have the strong high. This high by the way is what brought the cool dry air mass that was so crisp
00:51
and bright for many of us across the northeast. That October air is shifting its way out over
00:56
Atlantic Canada but doesn't allow the storm to lift very quickly on the coast. It also forces a
01:01
tighter change in pressure. That's what we call pressure gradient which is going to drive those
01:06
winds and in this case they're going to be pushed in towards the coastline. We already have those wind
01:11
gusts of more than 30 to 40 miles per hour. Atlantic City you've gusted to more than 40 as has Ocean City
01:16
Maryland and into Virginia. Coastal Virginia you can see 46 miles per hour there and we continue to
01:24
watch the rain lift northward too. Allie was dealing with some bands of rain coming in. A lot of this
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rain will be confined pretty well to the coast so we might not see it traverse as far into inter
01:34
Pennsylvania and some of our inter interior northeastern areas but we are still getting some
01:40
of the rainfall. Where it is heaviest working its way into South Jersey at this point in time and through
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the Delmarva. Along with that you do have those strong winds and the rough surf. Farther south this
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is where flooding has been a huge factor here due to some of the rain on top of coastal flooding.
01:57
Around the Georgetown area there is currently a flash flood warning in place. I did want to highlight
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here what they've been dealing with and let me take off some of the old ones but basically we've been
02:08
dealing with flooding reports around the Georgetown area that have been fairly substantial including some
02:13
water rescues too and notable flooding there in Georgetown region. So this is one of our big spots
02:20
where we've gotten a lot of the storm reports coming in from this area and they have indeed topped now more than
02:26
six inches of rainfall there as well as Andrews, South Carolina which is interior a little bit more
02:32
away from the coastline. You can see why the rainfall is a concern there in South Carolina. That continues
02:37
through a lot of today that low sitting and spinning as this whole storm system stretches out. So that second
02:42
impulse or the first impulse I should say moves up the coast. The second low continues to sit and spin
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and that's what takes the time to move up the coastline here allowing for the winds all the
02:52
while to be a factor. That's why we've been highlighting this risk for the tropical wind and rainstorm.
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It's on a one at the AccuWeather Real Impact Scale for hurricanes because of the amount of coastal
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flooding and beach erosion that it will do to the east coast.
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