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Floodwaters overtake Gulfport ahead of Hurricane Helene
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9/27/2024
Storm surge sent floodwaters far into Gulfport, Florida, in the hours before the arrival of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 26.
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Continuing with our team coverage right now is AccuWeather correspondent, Leslie Hudson.
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She joins us live now from Goldport, Florida with the absolute latest.
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Leslie, it's pretty intense out there.
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Yeah, you know, we decided to come out of those floodwaters because there were some live
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lights that were down and actually you can probably see the reflection off of me there.
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The awesome fire rescue crew here is making sure that we're safe
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and they asked us to come out of those waters, so we did.
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And it's really probably not the best decision to be down there,
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but I was trying to show you guys just how intense it's been,
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but you can clearly see that it is pushing inland.
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We've had to move our truck about six times because the water, again,
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a steady stream that's coming down this road.
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They anticipate this entire road to be flooded with standing water anywhere from four, five,
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six feet.
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The fire department here says that they think the worst,
00:51
where we are right here in Goldport, eight o'clock to ten o'clock tonight,
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they're anticipating this completely flooded out.
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There's a lot of cars that are way down there.
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This is a little historic district of Goldport.
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It's actually a very quaint old Florida city,
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but they are going to be underwater if they don't move their cars because I'm telling you,
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it is absolutely impassable down there.
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And we showed you the video earlier today of those boats.
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There was at least five that were unmoored that were just crashing up on the seawall.
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They lost over two dozen boats with Debbie in this particular bay
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and they're anticipating that or more.
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I saw at least 30 sailboats out there and they were not doing good
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and that was like five, six hours ago.
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So I can't get down there to see what they're doing now,
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but anticipating a fair amount of sailboat damage down here.
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Power's already out.
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There are folks that are staying,
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but most folks hopefully that are in this immediate area have left.
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For now, we're reporting live in Goldport.
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We'll send it back to you guys.
01:46
All right. Thank you so much.
01:47
That's AccuWeather correspondent Leslie Hudson.
01:49
Thank you for that update.
01:50
Be safe, Leslie.
01:51
And now we want to head over to Bernie.
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