Hurricane Fran landfall snippets - 1996-09-05
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[0:00] a handheld flashlight David tell us
[0:02] about the conditions down there well
[0:04] Jack you can only imagine we're getting
[0:06] hit pretty hard we're getting wind gust
[0:08] up to 150 hour we are in the r Beach
[0:12] North Carolina on wiing we have wind
[0:15] gust now up to about 120 mph so it's
[0:18] knocked the power out it's knocking
[0:20] trees over some power lines have been
[0:22] flaring up along the
[0:24] way most of them are impassible and it's
[0:27] pit Blackness as you can see around me
[0:29] so it is very very dangerous for those
[0:31] who have chosen to remain behind and not
[0:33] many have there are mandatory
[0:35] evacuations in this area shelters are
[0:37] filling up and the rain just keeps
[0:39] coming and coming the worst of it is
[0:41] still yet to come if you can believe it
[0:43] wind gust could get as high as 125 maybe
[0:45] 130 M hour as this thing gets a little
[0:49] bit closer in between 9 and 9:30 eastern
[0:52] time the eye of the storm may pass a
[0:54] little bit to the west of here but of
[0:56] course the Northeast version is the most
[0:59] powerful SE of the storm and that's what
[1:01] we're beginning to feel the brunt of now
[1:04] the storm surge which can create all of
[1:06] that flooding major problem here but
[1:08] some o