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And the prayers and thoughts are with those people right now. but, jim, the experience of being out here is similar to what i experienced when i covered hurricane rita and wilma. those were category 5 hurricanes. the wind is so intense. it literally nearly takes your breath away. it really does. it can knock you off of your feet if you're not steady. that's what it felt like during a category 5. this is a category 4 but it feels the same. it has that type of intensity when you're out here. i know that you'd asked earlier if we had seen any looky-loos, anybody wandering about. nothing. it's a g...

What we understand the structure will have to be looked at after the storm passes. another badly hit area is houma, louisiana. that's where we join cnn's jason carroll, who is just getting hammered all day long. >> reporter: it is not letting up, jim. we are now on the backside, i'm told, of the eye of this horrific storm that just continues to take down and beat down on houma. it's been like this for the past three hours. at a certain point the wind shifts direction and we saw even more damage. from my vantage point and i'm using this brick structure right next to me here just as a way to sta...

About at this point or are they hunkering down? are you seeing people try to look and see what's happening. looky-loos, that sort of thing. are you seeing anything like that? >> good question, jim. a couple of things. in terms of emergency responders, i do know that a number of them are hunkering down at a secure location next to the courthouse. that is a brick structure so they are hunkering down and not going out. they are waiting for this to pass before moving out and doing any assessments. i can tell you that at this point, power is out. we've seen and heard, you know power outages coming ...

Amounts we just don't want to see. >> all of this just mind-blowing seeing these images. tom, thank you. let's go to cnn's jason carroll in houma, louisiana, not far from where the storm made landfall. what are you seeing, jason? >> reporter: it's not just what we're seeing. it's what we're feeling. it's this incredible wind that's been barreling down on houma for the past few years and continues to do so. we're on the backside of hurricane ida, and we're expected to have these types of sustained winds for the next hour and a half, perhaps even two hours. we're told at some point out here, w...

Chad myers. what are they looking at while they are on the ground? talk about the force that we are looking at. >> they are looking at damage. they are looking at what happened to a brick structure or its roof, what happened to a wood structure or its roof. they are not looking at mobile home parks. they are not looking at really manufactured homes because they can blow over in 80 or 95 miles per hour wind. we are way beyond that. we are only going to be able to learn how strong this was by a strong brick structure that has never been knocked down before. last night the weather service found a...