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A meteorologist was caught exaggerating the extreme wind when filming a play in the heart of storm Florence.
Florence entered the Carolinas and rolled slowly inland Friday, cutting down trees, gorging rivers, pouring rain leaves and killing five people before she turned into a tropical storm capable of ravages.
Mike Seidel, of The Weather Channel, was filming a piece of camera about the tropical storm and seemed to be struggling to stay on his ground, such was the ferocity of the wind.
"It's about as bad as it was," said Seidel in a video captured by different viewers.
But eagle-eyed viewers noticed something behind him that seemed to show that he was exaggerating.
Two men calmly walk in the background, apparently unaffected by the "strong" winds.
In a few hours, the video on Facebook has been viewed more than four million times.
A statement from the Weather Channel said, "It's important to note that the two people in the background are walking on concrete, and Mike Seidel is trying to keep his foot on the wet grass, no doubt exhausted. "
Although the screaming winds of Florence decreased as the force of the hurricane landed, forecasters said the magnitude of the 350-mile storm and its slow progression in North Carolina and North Carolina South could leave much of the area under water.
Among the dead are a mother and a baby who were killed when a tree fell at their home in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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The injured father of the child was taken to the hospital. In Pender County, a woman died of a heart attack. paramedics trying to reach her were trapped by debris.
Two people died in Lenoir County. A 78-year-old man was electrocuted while trying to connect extension cords while another man perished when he was hit by high winds while checking his hounds, a spokesman said. County word.
In New Bern, North Carolina, the storm surge flooded the town of 30,000 at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent Rivers.
Jay Manning said he and his wife watched with concern as the water filled the street.
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"We moved all the furniture in case the water would come in, but the water seems to stay on the edge of the driveway," he said, adding that if the wind rose and the as the rain continued to arrive, it could change.
"My wife is in panic now."
Florence had been a Category 3 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson with 120 mph winds from Thursday, but came across a Category 1 hurricane before landing near Wrightsville Beach near Wilmington.
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