[Applause] tropical hurricane Category 2 Francine struck Louisiana us USA on the evening of September 11th oh after rapidly intensifying it made landfall in tabone Parish with wind speeds up to 100 mes hour and getting nasty my gauge on the winds w in there um you can definitely hear power generators popping all around me uh if you see any blue lights while I'm doing this that's what that is that is a lot of rain coming my way um wind is consistently above 50 60 easily the storm left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power hour by the following morning nearly 400,000 people in Louisiana were without electricity and another 60,000 were affected in neighboring Mississippi the report from my backyard it's flooded it's raining a storm surge caused serious issues for Eastern Louisiana and the Mississippi Coast after making land fall Francine quickly weakened to a tropical depression bringing heavy rains and flood warnings to 10 million people uh actually the canal underpass we're talking about feet oh you can see right now that guy breaking that window but this is feet of water right here we're talking about a pickup truck a big pickup truck that's submerged at the canal underpass here this is not no small vehicle we can see that person look like they're climbing out of the back seat right now here M here any see how at all this is crazy the New Orleans metropolitan area experienced over A month's worth of rainfall within a few hours in some areas 0.5 in of rain fell in just 9 minutes hurricane Francine bro taking half hour with her the massive amount of precipitation posed a significant threat to Residence that building back there just lost a truth [Music] [Music] in Tibido over two dozen people including young children were rescued from water traps the New Orleans airport recorded 7.3 in of rain making it the second wetest September day on record all flights were cancelled until Thursday morning Francine caused severe flooding in Morgan City St Mary Parish there were reports of damaged houses Fallen trees and down power lines St Charles Parish also also suffered extensively with over 350 structures inundated weakening to a post-tropical cyclone Francine moved Inland posing threats of tornadoes heavy rain and flooding to Mississippi Arkansas Tennessee Alabama and [Music] Georgia Jesus Christ there are certain aspects of hurricane Francine's behavior that are worth noting its unexpectedly rapid intensification to a category 2 hurricane before landfall and the massive amount of precipitation it brought which caused sudden life-threatening floods over a large area this behavior of the hurricane reflects the general trend of tropical hurricanes in recent years which are becoming more intense and unpredictable and given the progression it becomes obvious how dangerous they will become for people in the near future if urgent measures are not taken to help people withstand the onslaught of the elements fortunately scientists have already developed Technologies to address this issue effectively for more details watch the popular documentary water from Air the path to saving Humanity for