outside. i don t know how hard it is, but it sounds hard. tell us about baton rouge, and people know about new orleans, but not baton rouge, and are there areas that are of particular concern because of ida where there s being extra work being done to shore them up and protect then and get them evacuated, that the city is putting extra attention on? baton rouge, even though it s on the river, a majority of the city drains into something called the amy river, which is a smaller river to the east. the city is also grown in that direction, and you have a lot of development in low lying areas where all the water also drains, so that has been an ongoing sort of policy conflict about where to build and how to drain with infrastructure, and we had a significant flood here in 2016
hurricane, but the rain and flooding that will come. port vincent is on the banks of the amy river. this is an event that will last not just throughout the course of this day and the storm. it will last for several days. arlene mere lives in this house. i was just speaking with her. just like many people in the region, they know to the inch how much water it will take to get inside their homes. they said the water to the front door of her house is 1 1 3 . the latest report she got is that floodwaters could reach close to 13 feet. she s clearly in a very nervous situation now. residents we ve seen here in this community doing a lot of this. they plan to ride out the storm here and have their belongings ready to go and drive into higher ground as the storm approaches. even south of where we are. take a community like la feet,