00:00You can see some of these drifts here are chest deep. This one I could burrow down just a little bit, but there are some buried cars out here. I'm on Emerald Isle right along the beach, and the snow was blown off much of the isle and deposited in these areas that could catch it.
00:17Winds could gust up to 50 miles an hour today as a bomb cyclone lifts off to the northeast. But these big snow drifts, check these out. Here you can see the cornice, the lip on the snow drift. That's about three or four feet in height, and some vehicles are actually getting stuck out here at the beach in Emerald Isle.
00:39And I spoke to a local. They said they lost power at around 3 a.m. last night when the peak winds arrived, and then the power came back on this morning. So that is good news. And they said this is the craziest snowstorm they've had since 1989 out here. Wow. What a storm. Must have been over 20 inches. Higher totals up in Swansboro, but I do think that a lot of it was blown off some of these tiny islands out here.
01:06Emerald Isle. Beautiful place here in North Carolina. And I'm going to go to the beach.
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