From its first landfall in Florida to the second landfall in the Carolinas to wide-reaching flooding in the Northeast, AccuWeather was there to cover all of Debby's impacts.
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00:00I'm about an hour south of where Hurricane Debbie has made landfall, but at times, we are experiencing wind gusts potentially 70, 80 miles an hour.
00:13City officials just urging people take this storm seriously. They're warning of the potential of widespread, likely catastrophic, life-threatening flooding here.
00:24This street, which holds a number of businesses, has gotten so high that people walking through it is about waist deep.
00:37We've got a lot of water coming.
00:39This is just the overwhelming amount of water.
00:42Speaking of water, plenty of it, and I'm going to hold this shot just for a second because we're going to show you what you don't want to do when the roads look like this.
00:52And that is drive through it.
00:58We've seen so many stalled cars, many of them risking it, driving through the flooded water, and then it's game over.
01:08People need to really think about this is for real. This happens for real.
01:13I'm going to turn the camera around so you guys can see what is going on. The road is completely impassable here.
01:20And this is exactly the situation that meteorologists at AccuWeather have been warning people about in this region for days, long before Debbie approached this area.
01:28We were warning this wouldn't just have a big impact at the coast, but well inland as well, and unfortunately that's happening right here.
01:40You're looking at this live, maybe a water spout moving on shore.
01:43Certainly the potential is there, but you see it's hard to tell, but it's very faint. You see that bowl lowering right in the middle of the screen.
01:53And this is 100 miles away from Debbie's center to tell you how widespread her impacts have been.
02:00We're going to be dealing with a lot of problems for days to come, even after Debbie has exited.
02:05A lot of water, and it's going to be here for some time.