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Evacuation order. the sheriff basically saying that he estimates anywhere between 60% to 80% of residents have left town. the state's governor saying if anyone wants to leave town, time is running out. but given all of that, there are still some folks that we found out here mostly long time residents who say that they plan to stay put. so you are not going to evacuate, do you have any concerns about staying? >> it isn't the wind damage. i'm worried about what we'll come home to. don't want to go down that way. because if they have any bad damage here, we have nothing. >> reporter: is there any...

Easily fall over on my house. i have no power. i can't make phone calls out. this is terrifying. i -- i don't even -- i can't even explain this. i mean my pets are absolutely -- i mean they're all underneath the bed. i'm not going to get under the bed, but, you know -- >> yeah, where are you hunkering down in your house? >> right now i'm in my master bedroom. i'm here, and i'm trying to stay away from the windows and stuff. and if i need be, you know, we'll go into the bathroom and hunker down in the bathtub. >> gosh. you're alone. you're on a walker. you're seeing trees down. >> it's ridiculo...

All we can do is wait. i don't know if you can see behind here, we're trying to give it light so you can see what's been happening out here. we've seen some waters here starting to rise. not severe flooding by any stretch of the imagination but some. it's really a wind event that we're experiencing here in houma more than anything. it is howling through here and has been pounding and howling through here for the past two hours or so. it's really unlike anything i've experienced. as you know, jim, i've been through two hurricanes. category 5 hurricanes in the past. and this feels nothing like i...

Interstate. i'm scared. i'm more scared of the interstate than staying in the house right here. >> so emergency officials say this is going to be a severe wind event. this is going to be a severe flooding event, severe water event. that's can why you've got the governor, you've got the sheriff saying time is running out, if you're going to leave, the time is now. >> i hope people heed this warning. new orleans sits 55 miles east of houma. look, it's so close, officials are urging residents to take this threat seriously, as they anticipate big flooding, damning winds up to 110 miles an hour. >>...

The immediate hours ahead? >> certainly power outage. this is certainly a wind event. the rain has not been an issue to this point. not saying it won't be in the future and you know our city is uniquely impacted by water with our geography so that's a concern. but i'm concerned about obviously structure damage but with the wind cascading power outage, looking at about 74,000 customers in our city without power right now and it continues to grow. so i'm quite certain that we will have widespread power failure for at least -- probably a significant amount of time. mike: so it's 16 years since hu...