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throw at you a storm this strong with the surge, the wind, the rabe that we're talking about with hurricane ida, there's going to be devastating impact. and we have to do everything we can to save lives in the immediate response, and we'll get to the property repairs later. but i can tell you for several days, we're going to be engaged in search and rescue, the primary and secondary searches and we'll be in this for the long haul. but people of louisiana are good and resilient people and we're going to get through this. >> and in the louisiana town of lafite, the mayor says tidal surge levies have overtopped as the area continues to reel from hurricane ida. and he says surrounding areas are experiencing -- >> our levies were topped.