engineering at louisiana state university. comes to me now from baton rouge, louisiana. have to do it on the phone because of the storm. professor, five named storms in fact struck louisiana in 2020. what is the toll that these back-to-back storms have taken not just on the residents of the region but the infrastructure? >> on the infrastructure side we have had severe damage because of these hurricanes, especially the power infrastructure. we had parts of -- they lost power for several weeks. now in new orleans the transmission lines are down. so we expect the power to be out for a lot of time. so this not only has specific damage to the infrastructure but also it affects people and their livelihoods. that's the bigger part of the picture here is that the livelihoods are completely affected and it will take a while for people to get back their lives to normal at this point. >> i'm curious your thoughts. as weather patterns change do