00:00Hurricane Aaron continuing to make its presence known here in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
00:05We're seeing those tropical storm-like conditions, wind, and really those wind gusts anywhere from 40 to 45 miles per hour.
00:11The other thing we're talking about is going to be rough surf, like here.
00:15Here's the Atlantic Ocean. Very, very strong, dangerous waves crashing up against the pier here.
00:21At times, we're seeing waves hit anywhere from potentially 7 to 10 feet in this area.
00:26Good news about Kitty Hawk is that we're a little higher above ground, so the waves that we're seeing here,
00:32we're not going to see a lot of that storm surge get up and over into the barriers.
00:36But where that is going to pose a threat is about an hour south from where we are in those mandatory evacuation zones,
00:42places like Rodanthe, Buxton, Hatteras Island.
00:46Officials there said get out while you can, get to a safer location if at all possible.
00:50Really, the only people left in those areas are going to be locals down that way.
00:54But a lot of people that were here visiting, they got out, they got to locations that were a little safer.
01:00When you're dealing with something like Highway 12, when there really is only one way in and one way out in that region,
01:05they know that because of the low-lying conditions there,
01:08they have to take things like the rough surf and the storm surge very seriously.
01:13The big thing right now, those tropical storm-like conditions, the mixture of the rain,
01:18the wind and the rough surf is all things to keep in mind when dealing with Hurricane Aaron.
01:25For now, we're here in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
01:28Allie Reed for AccuWeather.
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