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The levee system out here, $14 billion invested in the levee system, and they're hoping what that does is prevent the outside water from getting moved in by the storm surge and driven by the wind. but you're definitely going to have some kind of flooding here. you've got flooding in the other areas with this storm surge now reported as high as 16 too feet, places that aren't protected by the levee system already have exextensive flooding. the one thing that's very sad and desperate that we know of thus far is the people who are trying to call 911, trying to get help, they'ren on their own for ...

Getting only wetter. i'd be very surprised if we get to the end of this and you don't lose some palm trees in the process. when you talk about that, you start or losing power. all of the trees altogether. that is some of the problem. you know you're going to get some wind damage out here. what you can see is this volume of water that is just drenching the crescent city right now. the pumps are working, at least 96 of 99 pumps are continuing to work. from your vapt aage point, you should be able to see the sheets of water moving down the street. what's hard to do is see into the distance there ...

Storm is expected to be stronger than katrina, one of the things that governor john bel edwards said is that the profile of the city, the juxtaposition is different than it was 16 years ago because they spent some $14 billion on the levee system. and that means outside water should not be able to get into the city. s this is going to be the first big test of the levee system, and what a test is test it is getting as you can see the wind and the water increasing here in new orleans. so we'll see how it goes. lots of flooding and lots of wind damage anticipated, and what we know from around the ...