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>>shepard: governor bryant, we certainly hope so. this is shepard smith across the border in slidell. i am curious about your assessment of the coastal areas where we have seen a lot of flooding. >>caller: it is heavy. is this shepard? >>shepard: yes. >>caller: you have seen it. it is nothing like katrina. but it is remarkable yesterday was the 7th anniversary of katrina. we will have a lot of damage due to flooding because this water was much higher inland than we had anticipated. nothing like the 28' surge we had. over the last seven years we have raised houses up 23'. we have made sure that...

Terrain vehicles, so they could get folks in and out. the first person we met was the lady in blue. it was raining to beat the band. >>shepard: you have been through it? >>guest: hell, yes. >>shepard: tell me what happened. >>guest: the dam water just rolled up on us. i can't do it. >>shepard: you stayed in katrina and rode it out? >>guest: yes. >>shepard: now, all that water is back. and slidell is soaked. >>guest: it was up to the 2nd step on my porch. >>shepard: that was enough? >>guest: i was ready to go. >>shepard: the rescue operations happening all day. >>guest: we rescued almost 100 pe...

Coming. it literally took lake pontchartrain and pushed it into this town. now, this area of town called old slidell has flooded once in the memory of anyone and that was during hurricane katrina. during katrina you had an unbelievable set of circumstances. aside from that, this has never flooded. they have upped the levees and upped the protection areas and thought this would not happen again. here we are, it has happened again. this area here beyond the interstate 10 sign, that area has never flooded before. all brand new territory for people in this community. in a minute we will meet the p...

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