limits. the flooding and devastating flooding really reaching out beyond the cope scope of the ci itself. >> that's the first time i heard the word, recede, used the last few days. that's awfully nice to hear. are there people choosing not to be evacuated at this point? >> reporter: you know, there are. there have been a number of people. we talked to a lot of these volunteers who are putting out their boats and said over the last couple l hours they're get into some of these neighborhoods and there are a number of people choosing not to evacuate. and that can be for a number of reasons. ear so some people are stubborn, don't want to leave. a lot is protection of property, people who want to stay back and make sure that their neighbors' homes are okay, that there's no looting in place. in fact, before we came on the air here tonight, john, there was a group of officers that were alerted to some suspicious visitors here to this particular neighborhood. they jumped out of their truck, got on a boat and went, started floating into is this neighborhood to inspect that. it ended up being a false alarm.