you [Music] [Music] it is now a category 2 hurricane on the saffr Simpson scale with Peak Winds of 100 milph you can look at the radar here and you can see that the radar has really filled in rapidly over Southern uh Louisiana and uh Southern Alabama conditions are going to go downhill really rapidly over the next several hours hopefully if you're listening to us from Southern Louisiana you're already where you need to be for the overnight hours and just stay there it's not going to be a good night to be driving on the roads especially when the Sun goes down you will not be able to see flooded streets you will not be able to see down trees down power lines so you need to stay off the roads in these areas flood watches and warnings are in effect over you can see so the darker uh green here is a flood watch I'll zoom out so you can see the greater extent flood watches in the brighter areas here of flood warnings that means it's all flooding is occurring or imminent so you can really see the flood warnings are starting to fill in and that will continue over the next several hours as these heavy bands move ashore also want to go back and show you that we also have a tornado watch here this is this red area that I've highlighted on the radar as these bands come ashore you can get these tornadoes to spin up bottom line is it's just the all hazards coming together here in Southern Louisiana and Alabama speaking of water hazards I want to stick with the water hazards and show you a storm surge warning a storm surge warning is still in effect for U Southern Louisiana around to uh uh gulport Mississippi um 5 to 10 ft [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] for days now we we've been preparing for the storm uh getting different things together chainsaws so that we can cud offroads because if they're closed we can't get to people that that need help uh we have high water Vehicles boats you name it uh extra deputies out on patrol right now until this is concluded and just we just want everybody to be [Music] safe we've seen some bad storms I was here for Andrew and and I never want to see that one again um uh but we're worried about some of the storm surge things of that nature but I think I think we're doing well I think we're prepared and ready for anything [Music] [Music] we prepared everything we wrapped up all the uh computers and stuff that we have registers and everything in there we made sure we had all the flaps up in the front of the building because anytime a storm comes it blows really hard and we're scared it's going to break them we also took all the garbage cans in brought them in prep prepped everything got everything in one freezer so that way when the electricity does go out we'll have generators ready for it to rock and roll it's coming no matter how I feel I'm just praying everybody stay safe and everybody the property stay as well as it can be and we'll see what outcome comes on Thursday [Music]