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Alisyn, we're great ateful to h you on this, thank you. people on the gulf coast are not strangers to hurricanes. they're making sure they're ready when ida makes rainfall. >> a resilient community. michael holmes has more. >> reporter: filling up and getting out. many people in new orleans are leaving town. >> i'm not going to do that again. >> reporter: the lines of heavy traffic leading out of the city show how many people are taking their chances with the storm named ida. many residents have been through major hurricanes before but officials say this one could be a monster. there are warni...

Morning. one man says his neighborhood on a barrier island is emptying out. >> everybody packing up. getting out. i hear it's only going to be about a dozen people probably going to try to ride it out. but you know it's going to flood. louisiana has taken the punches of many of these walloping storms, before. it's still recovering from hurricane laura and hurricane zita which made landfall in the state last year causing nearly $20 billion in damage. and 16 years ago, on this very day, hurricane katrina unleashed its fury on new orleans and other gulf coast cities. more than 1,800 people were...