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Going to it a lot of moisture and dump it on top of you for hours and days. are you ready for that? >> yes, sir. we have looked at the rainfall rates. anywhere between 10 to 15 inches. we have a diverse drainage system here. we have over -- we have about 7 a pu 5 pump stations and over 100 pumps within those san diegos. if the brain doesn't arain didnn at the same time in a 12 hour period, we can pump the water out but 20, 25 inch area, we may experience flooding on the roads and some houses may experience some water. >> so slow and steady means you're ready is what you're saying. >> yes, sir....

Closed. and the pumps are limited. they can only pump out one inch an hour for the first hour and up to a half an inch an hour of rain every hour after that. the problem is with this particular storm, barry, we are expecting rainfall rates of two to three inches an hour, sometimes even higher than that. that is too much rain for those pumps to be able to pump out. and since there is no more floodgates that are open and allowing that water to exit, new orleans no longer acts like a colander but now acts like a bowl, allowing all of that water to just sit there and have no real way of exiting ou...

Effect until noon central time, including fayetteville, arkansas, working through western oklahoma into northeastern or northwestern, i should say, northwestern arkansas. eastern oklahoma to western arkansas. 17 million people at risk. we've talked about these rainfall rates. 1 to 2 inches an hour. now, you see a line of storms, but we're continuing to see energy feed these storms, and they continue to train. we're looking at an enhanced risk of certainly severe weather rolling even into st. louis, back to springfield, down to little rock, damaging winds is going to be the big issue, as we hea...

Rain, bridges and overpasses. the rain today will fill in. 10 million people under watches. this area of red in here is 3 inches of rain. a little bit of chance of 4 inches in central louisiana. could have hourly rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour. many of the rivers are in flood stage and we're adding this rain on top of it and that's why we're expecting problems in areas of the deep south. eventually this rain will spread tonight and tomorrow into the southeast. just what you wanted, more rain, right, after an extremely soggy 2018. west of ft. worth, ice possible up towards oklahoma ci...

One river was going up. once it gets so high they don't have a choice, so this river at one point was going up seven feet in one hour. pretty incredible rainfall rates in texas. year going to continue with it today. we have flash flood watches from san rio, back through dallas and fort worth. it looks like the rain stays in the forast at least through friday. this is just through thursday. so it's not like epic-type rain but the ground is super saturated. all of it goes into the run off and of course with the river so high, it's more added problems and 54 degrees and rainy is not a fun forecas...