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Create some problems, it is a very flat area, it doesn�*t drain very readily, and then it will be completed by the storm surge. and then we are looking at wind, iao miles an hour, it will create some pretty serious damage along the coastline, but the storm is moving relatively swiftly, about 15 mph, and it should hold together fairly far inland with fairly strong winds, but it is expected to move right over baton rouge where i am located, depending on how you want to define the coastline of louisiana, we have a lot of marsh here but we are about 60—70 miles inland, and we are expected to s...

I don't think ida is in quite the same class as hurricane katrina, but the irony of it is at the landfall, i think this storm is likely to be stronger than katrina was at landfall. but hurricane katrina before landfall was a category five, and it built up this big storm surge, and when it finally, it weakened as it got closer to the coast, it brought this category five search up against the coast, we had a 28 foot surge in mississippi in hurricane katrina. i don't think we will see anything like this — even though we'll have higher wind speeds and probably a stronger storm when it comes onsh...