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All right, let's check the roads right now and uh any possible flooding conditions with news 12 Connecticut's Mark Soall. He is over at Southport Beach in Fairfield, Mark. Hey, Eric, we're not seeing so much flooding as we are feeling the wind. I mean, that's the one thing we've noticed here. Uh, since our first report at six o'clock this morning, heavy winds so strong. In fact, Eric, I want to show you the winds knocked over this Porta Potty today. We're talking about sustain winds of over 40 miles an hour today. And I want to show you now this is wet sand, ok? Because we had some rain here earlier. This is wet sand and if I throw this up in the air and that's still blowing a little bit there with some of the conditions we had, check out what the sound looks like with some of these choppy waves. Obviously, there's a small craft advisory out here today. Absolutely. And the marine forecast is calling for 11 ft waves on the sound this afternoon. Now, I did talk to Fairfield Police today and they told me that in a statement while we haven't had any immediate emergencies. We encourage residents to stay vigilant and prepare particularly with the coastal flood warning in effect for high tides on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, we advise residents to secure any loops, outdoor items stay indoors if possible during the worst of the weather and avoid unnecessary travel. Our emergency services are always prepared to respond should any situations arise? So again, you can, you can see the conditions out here now. Uh And that's a story from here. We'll keep following uh this for you obviously throughout the day in Fairfield, Mark Sudal, who's 12 Connecticut? All right, Mark. Thank you and be sure to send in your Wednesday storm pictures and videos. We wanna see what today's storm looks like right in your community. Use the hashtag N 12 storm watchers. You might even see your content right here on the air. Stay with us. We're gonna have the latest on the storm, of course, throughout the day and on news talk.com.

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