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Photojournalist will zoom into that pump. a temporary pump set up coming from the neches river, which is normally the water comes from the neches river to this pumping station. but because the main pumping station up river, it has three pumps inside it is flooded and under water and the engines, the motor shorted out, that's done. they have to try to set up temporary pumping stations that are pumping water from the neches river into those orange pipes. look here. basically coming through this pipe here. and going -- up to -- the water treatment plant right here. now, it's slow going. they're t...

This is the reason that everything is flooding. it dries out for five minutes and in one big downpour you can get an inch of rain. there is no way for the pumping stations in and along plaquemine s perish, no way to handle this rain at this volume for this period. they are doing their best but there was no way to predict this is how it would go down. now to the other side of slidell where they are dealing with on-and-off rains. >>reporter: it just hit us. i am not that far from you and i have covered hurricanes for a long-term and it came on us fast. look at the folks down here, wading through...

The army corps of engineers expressing the same confidence i have heard from you as well. he explained the pump situation, but he feels if we don't get a storm that just sitsson new orleans that you'll be okay and the people here who are deciding to hunker down will be okay as well. >> i agree with what ken holder said. the pumps are designed to drain one inch per hour and a half inch every hour after that. last year with tropical storm lee it dumped 14 to 15 inches of rain on the east bank and west bank of jefferson, but we were able to keep up with it. we obviously had flooding in the street...