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Discussing has had to do with the dramatic nature of the storm, the way it has formed. its ability to retain its cohesion. hours and hours after making landfall. what do you see when you look at hurricane ida? does anything stand out to you? >> hurricane ida is a really impressive storm. it's yet another reminder, i think, of the fury nature can throw at us. we got a little lucky in some cases when it comes to hurricane ida. it's fortunate it's passing to the west, i would say, rather than to the east like hurricane katrina did. and as a consequence, we're probably going to be seeing less dama...

This time. >> very much. you asked me a little bit ago between the two storms. when a storm comes on sure you see that counterclockwise motion. the right side of the storm is where you have the on sure motion pulling the storm surge. that is worse but at the very center of the storm. it was a smaller and stronger storm than katrina katrina had a lot of time over water and a category five at one point all that time put a lot of storm surge pushing a lot of water with it while the internet making landfall as category three the water was there to come on sure. this came on sure at port fourchon a...

Reporter: we are about 14 hours from the storm made landfall we still have a hurricane on deck i keep looking over to see if any changes to downgrade the wind still 75 mile-per-hour sustained wind and that happens because it came i'm sure so strong that is the strongest storm we have ever had to make landfall in the us during record-keeping time and that is by wind not necessarily by lower pressure or meteorological definition so that ties by the way with hurricane laura that made landfall southwestern louisiana last year two years and were on —- in a row category storms making landfall very...

As we all well know, when you're standing out here, it pretty much all feels the same. so everyone here in houma hunkering down and preparing as the eye wall now is just about upon us. jim? >> hunkering down in houma is right. jason, you to that as well. we'll get back to you. you can really see the winds picking up. i've been in one of those eyes before. and it can be eerie. it can be very calm but make no mistake. there's no nastiness to come. jason carroll, thank you. let's go to the cnn weather center where jennifer gray is tracking this storm. one of the things that is just really appar...

Going into that eye. to get landfall it has to go through the center of the storm. we may get that. we may not. if we don't at that location the storm has to cross over the bay and then come onshore here on the west side of the bay and heading up to homa and that will be about three to four hours from now. we may get one landfall and a second after it crosses the bay. in grand isle, we had 146-mile-per-hour wind gusts reported. it's amazing the instrument even held up. the gauge just told us it's up to five feet and is increasing rapidly. the storm surge is coming on into louisiana. now is the...