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It's pretty much like the french quarter area. a little up from that. this on a sunday this time would normally be very busy, a lot of brunch going on, a lot of folks. as you can see it is a ghost town. there are a few folks. this place is worried about storm surge so they've done a lot of sandbagging. is that enough? will it hold? will the levees hold? that's the question, of course. people wondering about that. but right now you can see we've got a lot of folks just out off the streets. we are -- all of our phones went off about 30 minutes ago because we got the alert that there are now sust...

Their assessment of the damage. hard to make it out because all of this wind and rain that is barreling down on us at this moment. again, the eye wall right now barelying down on houma. after this, there should be a break. a much-needed break. and then the back end of the storm as well. so houma is in the thick of it. when i checked in with emergency officials, i was asking them, i said, what is your plan of action when something like this happens? when you have a category 4 storm, descending upon you and basically what the sheriff told me is he says, what you have to do is you have to let mot...

Prepare for broken windows. get into a safe place. now is not the time to try to get a closer look at this storm. the 2:00 advisory has just come out, wolf. we are still maintaining 150 miles per hour winds. the storm has come on shore. it has made land fall. but that doesn't mean anything when you're talking about the storm weakening. you can see the center of the storm, lightning strikes associated with it. basically two different -- not eyes but two different eye walls right here, and that's what we're going to see the 150 miles per hour winds right around that center one, right here the ey...

Forgive me for geeking out just a little bit, but i'm reading about concerns about meso vortexes. forgive me if i'm saying that wrong. are there characteristics of that eye wall making this storm particularly vicious? >> you said it exactly correct. from a meteorological perspective, i'm seeing those meso vortexes. this is a healthy hurricane, even though we're continuing to move on land. places like houma could still see wind gusts of 130 miles an hour. k kennar at the airport you're still getting hurricane force wind gusts and look how far away you are from the center. >> what advice do you ...

Life-supporters standing -- team of reporters standing by. we are in houma not far from where the starm made land fall. it is getting serious where you are, jason. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yes. the conditions, we've seen them getting progressively worse with each passing hour as we've been standing out here. it's the severe wind. it's the severe rain that's been coming down steadily. and we're not even really in the thick of it yet. as bad as some of the conditions are now, if you look, i don't know how much of this reads on camera as you see the wind gusts come through here. but the...