Now. not clear how long things might stay this way. joining us now is the director of emergency operations for jefferson parish, joe val yen tay. mr. valiente, thank you so much for making time. i know it s a really busy and difficult time for your parish right now. not a problem. i m glad to be on. can you tell us an overall briefing on the situation in jefferson parish, how things are in grand isle, how things are in other communities in the parish and whether you, in fact, have definitive information about every corner of the parish or whether that damage assessment continues? so let s start with grand isle first. so grand isle took the brunt of this storm, and it had a tremendous storm surge, and it had some of the highest winds that it s experienced in quite a while. last year we experienced seven storms and six activations b you they were pretty much all glancing blows. this one hit us head-on and did a tremendous amount of damage. we just made it to the island