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In general, this was one heck of a storm. one of our fields it completely flooded. our pump station we were not able to get to it because of flooding. we are working on getting a grant from fema for flood mitigation grant. one fortunate thing is we only had one in our town, one resident lose power because they had put up a flood wall around the substation. at one point last night when i drove around, some of our state police had to block out 23 south because the manhole covers were being forced up in the air by how much the water was flowing.

System so what it is the absence of bad news specific to new orleans? and whether the levee system and that redundancy held up. but outside of the new orleans levee system we will have some flash flooding to talk about plaquemines parish there is an emergency underway because the flood wall that runs the length of the mississippi or for that section, a floodgate has failed. there is a flash flood in effect so there is water rushing up highway 23. in the northern direction. so they have put out the flash flood warning that is an area where earlier in the storm we had some information that a lev...

For the levee itself for the flood wall and in this case talking about the failure of a floodgate with the flash flood associated with it. here in new orleans a major issue at this point is the entire place is without power. you have 1 million people without power right now from different power outages and the trees that fall. but here we have information from the property so it will be sometime and ready to go to work immediately.

People to shelters? >> caller: we offered that shelter to people and i believe quite a few people went to it at the last minute. >> okay. so you believe there are people at your shelters. >> caller: yes. >> i know covid -- the numbers in louisiana for covid have been skyrocketing. how has that complicated your efforts to keep these people safe? particularly those going to shelters? >> caller: that caused the parish not to give us access to a shelter last minute because they were super worried about it thinking a super spreader situation in the shelter. >> but the shelter is available for you n...

Amid a drought, Napa County is preparing to protect more than 2,000 city of Napa properties from the next flood. The county learned earlier this year that the stalled Napa River flood control project will receive $48.3 million in federal funds. That has local flood control officials talking about the final round of projects. Step one has been meeting with officials from the federal partner, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, by Zoom. Four flood control projects totaling about $94 million are to be done with a mixture of federal, local, developer and grant money. Support local news coverage and...