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You know, not only flash flooding is going to be an issue into the overnight hours but also significant damage and when you're speaking of winds of this magnitude at landfall the national hurricane center often says the area will be uninhabitable for a period of weeks to months. we know that damage in place, that certainly has already taken place along the southern coast of louisiana. you take a look at the mullet plier effect and people often think a category increase from 1 to 2 is a linear increase. only a one category increase. but the damage impacts are about a 10 x increase in the damage...

The overnight hours certainly very little sleep going to be had across a lot of areas into the southern united states here as the system moves northward and we know it's already dark, it's already hot outside in some of these areas, so with upwards of almost a million customers without power it's going to make things that much more difficult and challenging as well. and of course a million customers, not a million people. generally three to four people per customer. you're talking as much as 4 million people sitting in the dark across the state of louisiana. but here we go. peak wind speeds as...