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City council’s first 2022 budget meeting, focused on the first draft for water and wastewater, produced some lively debate on Wednesday.

City council’s first 2022 budget meeting, focused on the first draft for water and wastewater, produced some lively debate on Wednesday.

City council’s first 2022 budget meeting, focused on the first draft for water and wastewater, produced some lively debate on Wednesday.

Let's bring in gordon dove, the president of a parish. i wonder from you, if you can give us an idea of how people are doing in your parish, what are the needs? >> well, people who have stayed here for the hurricane, you know, 155 miles per hour winds here in our parish in 1515 miles an hour, and then we had gusts up to registered 185. there was no flooding. the levy system we built and the pump stations and pumping system all worked fine, but we do have wind damage, and the people are cleaning up and were able to get a lot of -- the national guard volunteers. we have pods set up handing out

Holding up? >> the federal government invested 4. #$4.7 billion in th flood protection system in louisiana for just this reason. so far they are performing as designed. they are being tested and we are being pushed. this is a monster storm. i credit the national weather service because they were right the whole time they told us what would happen so we were able to prepare for it the right way. and the levees are doing the flood walls, pump stations, all of these components, this complex system that new orleans is doing exactly what it was supposed to do. >> right. i think this has been a reco...