as seen from the inside of a fishing boat this is Hurricane Francine making landfall in dlac Southern Louisiana electricity was knocked out for 300,000 people as the storm moved across the state from the Gulf of Mexico bringing with it heavy rain strong winds and flooding earlier people prepared by boarding up buildings and stocking up on supplies we're out here serving our community we love everyone here so we want to make sure that they have gas for their generators and they have their Essentials that after crashing ashore as a category 2 hurricane with wind speeds of more than 150 km an hour the storm then weakened but still brought with it a dangerous storm surge with a flash flood emergency issued for the City of New Orleans thousands of people in parishes around the coast were put under mandatory evacuation orders and everyone else in the storm's path was told to hunker down many of them have suffered devastating hurricanes in the past we've seen some bad storms I was here for Andrew and and I never want to see that one again uh but we're worried about some of the storm surge things of that nature the Atlantic hurricane season which began in June has seen three hurricanes so far fewer than scientists were expecting