The NOAA's Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service shows the ocean cresting at 13.7 feet, nearly three feet above major flood stage. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Seavey Island) crested at 13.17 feet, which is two feet above flood stage.
Coastal flooding on Saturday could rival Wednesday's. Even though the storm is weaker, the tides will be higher overall. Winds will gust up to 60 mph at the coast and 45 mph inland on Saturday morning.
Police shut down Ocean Boulevard late Wednesday morning during high tide just before 10 a.m. as 1-3 feet of water covered the road thanks to 11-foot waves.
Hampton Police Chief Alex Reno said Joseph James Davis, 18, was involved in an altercation Sunday evening and stabbed a male three times in the leg, including one time that pierced an artery.
A driver being pursued by police lost control and died after going off the road and into the woods on Ocean Road at the Greenland/Portsmouth border late Thursday afternoon.
Hampton Police Chief Alex Reno said Elton Stanley, 37, and another person fought inside the Speedway gas station on Lafayette Road (Route 1) at Kershaw Road around 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon.