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Minute, and the pounding rain is just intensifying here. down here, here's another danger. another reason why you shouldn't venture out in a hurricane after dark when the power's out, things like this. this is a construction site that they had to leave obviously and leave a lot of equipment and debris and 2 x 4s and things here. you're not going to be able to see stuff flying around. there's been debris flying around and that's going to be a concern if people try to venture out in this. no visibility. you're not going to be able to see flying objects. that has been a particular concern of our ...

Well. the flooding that you're going to see probably here in the french quarter and elsewhere in new orleans is going to be a rainfall volume type of flooding. it likely will not be because of storm surge because the levee system here has been really heavily fortified since hurricane katrina in 2005. i've been talking with people from the flood protection system authority here in new orleans all day today. they are very confident that the levees, surge gates, floodgates -- those gates are closed by the way now. the levees are much higher than they were before hurricane katrina. let's move over...