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As you could. when you did come back here, it was by boat. >> yes. >> and how high was the water right here? >> the water was right to the pinstripe on the truck here. we had 38 inches of water in the house itself. >> yinside? >> yes, inside. it was a lake back here. you had to wade through it and the street was over six foot deep. you had to swim through it if you wanted to go that way. >> how long were you out of your house for that? >> we were out of the house for almost a year, almost a full year before we got back in, got the house rebuilt, remodeled and everything redone. >> tim, you kno...

Up in the next 48 hours, and that's what we're going to be watching. wind gusts, we're not talking about huge wind gusts, but power outages. we've seen trees on cars, we've seen trees on trailers, and that will happen again over the next several days with wet grounds, with the trees coming down, so we could have destruction there as well. let's go to the wind gusts as we go throughout time here. we're looking at 58 new orleans, 58 baton rouge, 20 as you head to the north. we'll talk more about that but we're going to focus on the rain and watch that over the next several days. >> michelle gros...

As far as new orleans goes, you'll probably see the strongest gusts in the next two or three hours and then the winds will die down. again, scattered power outages in areas with trees and that will be the main issue. alex, as we go throughout the rest of the storm, it will be monitoring who gets the heavy rain, how much rain they get, and then we'll talk about those river forecasts. right now central flooding is predicted in central louisiana, in the same spot where three years ago they had, quote, unquote, they're once in a lifetime flood of $17 billion of damage done. one other story i just ...

Some new warnings from the national weather service about hurricane barry. new warnings about how it's carrying it off the chart. officials are warning about consequential flash flooding while parts of mississippi, alabama and louisiana are already under water. we are keeping meteorologist michelle grossman very busy on this saturday. what's the latest? that kind of rain coming down is remarkable. >> it's a lot of rain at one time and it's going to be days and days of this. this is a very slow mover so you'll hear terms like historical, terms like life threatening and this is what we're going ...

That 18 and a half inches of rain expected here, and particularly in certain neighborhoods like this one where i'm standing, we're less than a football field away from a bayou. that can be a massive problem when you have significant rainfall. the memory here is very fresh. just back in 2016, they had an incredible flood that did millions of dollars of damage here. tim johnson was here when that flood took place back in 2016. here we are about three years later, tim. you see this rain already coming down from barry and what's going through your head right now? >> we're just hoping and praying t...