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Systems over 100 years old. rests in an area interlaced with bayous. there's one bayou in particular that people in the city are concerned about. it's called braise bayou, and it's flooded the last two years in a row. they will be keeping a close eye on that bayou. the other area of concern is to the west of the city. it's two dams. the dams are critical because they stop the floodwater from going down into the city of houston which has a population of 6.6 million people. the army corps of engineers says say that are monitoring dams 24 hours, round the clock, not what they normally do. in 2009...

Covering katrina, the bayous, the low areas exist all throughout this area, ken for that great state of louisiana as well as texas, too. >> louisiana is on the northern fringe of the storms, the winds will be severe, you have that on shore push of water. you also have in those rain bands, the three-to-five inches of rain i was talking about t. concern here, north and east of corpus christi is the water pushes in with the wind flow, the water that normally bleeds out to the gulf has nowhere to go. so it piles up. >> yeah. >> so that's why this is an accumulation over days, it builds and builds ...