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00:00If you're still hearing us and you haven't left yet, or you haven't made plans on leaving,
00:08please leave.
00:09I hate to say this, but I just don't have enough body bags.
00:17Here it comes, approach the front door.
00:30In order to prevent something from happening again, you've got to understand why it happened
00:54in the first place.
01:00So what is coming up?
01:06Are they back in the house?
01:08Yes, they are.
01:09They're trapped in.
01:10Hello!
01:11Are you upstairs?
01:13Katrina was a wake-up call.
01:17We got you, baby.
01:20But we have fell back to sleep.
01:23They are the lucky ones saved from what FEMA now calls the most significant natural disaster.
01:29ever to hit the United States.
01:32Yeah, it was a disaster.
01:35We're going to be faced with disasters.
01:38But the tragedy of Katrina was man-made.
01:47We got a baby out here.
01:51They don't have no formula, no water, and they want us to survive out here.
01:56Where's FEMA?
01:57Where's the man?
01:58Where's the man?
01:59Katrina was a hurricane of governmental failure.
02:03And it was a hurricane of mistruth and injustice.
02:09One of the police officers told me was it is a war zone out there.
02:15People are losing their minds.
02:18My, my grandma, one of y'all, if y'all out there, you heard me, and y'all hear you, son,
02:24just let me know y'all living, you heard me?
02:38It didn't have to happen like that.
02:41Not in America.
02:42We can't justify this.
02:45Can't justify what happened after Katrina.
03:06Tropical depression number 12 is turning tonight near the Bahamas.
03:09It's going to be moving very slowly for the next two to three days,
03:12moving in the general direction of Florida.
03:15If it does grow in strength and become a tropical storm, it'll be named Katrina.
03:25Katrina was unlike any other hurricane.
03:29Thousands of people in South Florida have their eyes on Katrina
03:32as the storm has now just reached hurricane status.
03:35It's surrounding Miami-Dade County area, Southern Broward County.
03:38All of a sudden now, it's starting to come towards us.
03:46Katrina is expected to become a very intense hurricane.
03:51That's what's developing with a hurricane now in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
03:56As you know, hurricanes feed off of warm water.
04:00In the days before Katrina, everything was going well.
04:04Even the sun was shining.
04:06It was like my kids were swimming in the swimming pool.
04:09Let's see our little pool.
04:11She done for the day, huh?
04:13Yeah, so when we first found out they had the hurricane coming,
04:20that thought too much fazed the people in New Orleans, you know?
04:23So many times that hurricanes were supposed to be coming here and they never came or turned off,
04:32or we might have got some of the water, some of the winds, or, you know, we might have not got nothing.
04:39I just felt like, you know, if the hurricane did come through, maybe they just passed through,
04:45and then the next day you're not going to go home and everything good.
04:49Because I still was preparing my suit for Mardi Gras.
04:56In New Orleans, people start preparing months ahead of time.
05:01I still remember my piece that I was working on, I still see it laying on the table.
05:08Everything that we're looking at indicates this hurricane has the potential to strengthen even more than it already has.
05:16We're not trying to frighten people, but this is one that we are, quite frankly, very frightened of.
05:20We're concerned, obviously, that concerns us a great deal.
05:23My siblings who live away from the city, they were talking about the storm.
05:28And they were like, come on, you got to get mama, y'all come.
05:31And I'm like, I ain't leaving.
05:34You know, this is, you know, every time it happens, they're trying to make me leave.
05:39I said, I'm not leaving my property.
05:41This spot, it had history.
05:46My grandmother was born two doors from here.
05:50And so my family has roots in this bad boy way before the 1800s, all right?
06:04New Orleans is identified by the wards.
06:07If you ask somebody where they're from, they'll say the Lower Nine, Upper Nine, the Seven, the Eight, New Orleans East, the Treme.
06:16What neighborhood you were from basically tells a story about us.
06:22The Seven Ward, that was our whole family.
06:26And in the Lower Ninth Ward, there was a lot of poverty here.
06:31However, there was always a lot of community where people looked after each other.
06:40The people put their heart and soul into this city to make it grow and to make it a better city.
06:47That yearning, that culture, that music, that language that no one else could understand, that close-knit community.
07:04Everything, everything changed that day.
07:13The way I remember it, it started moving further west.
07:28Hurricane Katrina continues to move west in the Gulf of Mexico.
07:32The big question is...
07:33Look at this cone of error here. It basically runs from Pensacola out to south-central sections of Louisiana.
07:41Fear started to seep into everybody here in the city and certainly at the station that I was working at.
07:48It was like, okay, this is really serious. This could turn out to be the big one.
07:56Here's the projected path on Katrina.
07:58Right now...
07:59What the weathermen were forecasting by Saturday was that this hurricane is too big to turn.
08:05It's gonna hit us.
08:09At the LSU Hurricane Center, from early on the Saturday morning, we were running storm surge models.
08:17As Hurricane Katrina was approaching, and we knew then, we knew then and there, this was going to be a catastrophe.
08:32I had obtained a model from Louisiana State University of the potential for storm surge from that morning's hurricane predictions.
08:42Storm surge is that elevated water that is pushed in advance of the winds of the storm.
08:49In New Orleans' case, that water comes in either from the Gulf of Mexico or from lakes to the east and to the north, especially Lake Pontchartrain.
09:02Flood walls and levees surround the populated areas to protect them from flooding.
09:11But it was very clear that Hurricane Katrina's storm surge could overtop levees and cause dramatic disaster.
09:20For years, I tried to warn about something like Katrina, that we were sitting on a ticking time bomb.
09:35Storms in the Gulf, you typically had three, four days to watch them.
09:45But on Saturday, Katrina took a swivel toward us, and that meant we were in full throttle mode.
09:54This is not a test. This is the real deal. Board your windows with plywood if you can. Make sure your car has enough gas in it.
10:07Do all the things that you normally do to prepare for a hurricane, but treat this one differently, because it is pointed toward New Orleans.
10:17We are advising people to evacuate probably at daybreak on tomorrow.
10:27St. Bernard. It's not looking good for us down here in St. Bernard. I don't think I can go anywhere.
10:35First of all, I really don't have the money. The reason I had a video camera, I've been performing slam poetry.
10:43So, anywhere I would have went at that point in time, I was, like, still in the mode of, like, recording myself.
10:54This storm look like it's definitely coming, man. I mean, like, straight towards us, so it's a bad situation to be in.
11:01But I know God is gonna keep us from the storm. He said he's gonna protect us.
11:06Northwest into the simple water.
11:07Me being the Marines, you know, I'm a pretty good swimmer. Like, survival skills, if the water came, like, I know I could survive it.
11:15Yeah, but once again, not enough.
11:16But I didn't want my mom to be here.
11:19Yeah, you can see my mom, she's kinda tired. She been cooking.
11:22I actually told my mom, I said, Ma, if I have to crack you over the head with a pot, knock you out, put you on my shoulder, you're gonna leave.
11:29She finally got out of there. But for myself, I didn't want to leave because I didn't know what we was gonna be coming back to.
11:41We had three houses in that property, including a home that I was starting to remodel.
11:46Like, on my crib, just coming along. So I stayed behind, and, um, I just was praying.
11:57Saturday night, I received a blackberry ping from the mayor that said, SOS.
12:09Hurricane Katrina was now projecting to become a Category 5, and that meant a tale of destruction.
12:21That major hurricane barreling toward the Gulf Coast of the United States, Hurricane Katrina, is now a Category 5 hurricane.
12:29Category 5, which are the strongest hurricanes we know of, only three times before in U.S. history have Category 5 storms hit the U.S. mainland.
12:39This thing is a very strong Category 5, 170-mile-an-hour winds.
12:45People don't realize how big Katrina was. It covered the entire Gulf of Mexico.
12:51As perfect a hurricane as you've ever seen, if you can call a hurricane like this perfect.
13:01She ain't turning. She coming now.
13:03Y'all pulling out, huh?
13:05Yeah.
13:06They done been around and seen so many, but they ain't never seen this kind.
13:10It's a fire, man, a full fire.
13:14And fire, it is not a good situation.
13:17It's a cold red.
13:19Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
13:25We're here for our update on Hurricane Katrina.
13:30I am this morning declaring that we will be doing a mandatory evacuation.
13:39Every person is hereby ordered to immediately evacuate the city of New Orleans.
13:46This is very serious, and it's of the highest nature.
13:50And that's why we're taking this unprecedented move.
13:53Do hereby promulgated...
13:55When the mayor announced the mandatory evacuation, it was Sunday.
14:01It's kind of late, because the storm was coming in that night.
14:07Never before in the history of New Orleans had a mandatory evacuation taken place.
14:12So we needed to do some legal work to ensure the city was not liable in the long term,
14:21and that we were keeping the people we needed to keep in the city of New Orleans,
14:25and at the same time ensuring everyone else left.
14:29So when the mayor makes the call to evacuate the city,
14:34we were more concerned from a police standpoint with the evacuation process,
14:38giving people a warning.
14:40The city of New Orleans is under mandatory evacuation.
14:43Everyone is advised to leave the area.
14:46We have a Category 5 hurricane coming.
14:49What the mayor did was he sent the police force into the area using their PA systems,
14:55telling people to evacuate, and if they were unable to evacuate,
15:00that buses would be stationed throughout each neighborhood to take them to the Superdome,
15:06which is a sports arena in New Orleans, as a refuge of last resort.
15:12The Superdome would be opened up as a refuge of last resort.
15:18But let me emphasize, the first choice for every citizen is to figure out a way to leave the city.
15:26If the mayor is saying, hey, you need to leave, yes, they do.
15:33It makes our job a lot easier.
15:35But how can they do that if they can't afford to?
15:43Within New Orleans, you have a high poverty rate.
15:47If you're going to tell poor people to leave, where are they going?
15:52Katrina hit at the worst time to be poor in America.
15:58By the end of the month, you ain't got no money.
16:07We didn't get hit with a big one for a long, long time, but this one felt different.
16:13We don't want to stay here, but...
16:15For this one, I had this strange feeling.
16:18This vision in my head, like, foreshadowing.
16:21This is what's gonna happen, man.
16:23I've seen water.
16:25But I do know the water's gonna come.
16:27The time to go is right now, get on the road.
16:32Because if you don't, the window's gonna clear around you pretty soon.
16:41On Sunday, we all went down by my mother's house.
16:45Then the 7th Ward to go and check on her.
16:48It was like five of us.
16:51We had the twins.
16:53The twins was like three and a half months.
16:55And then it was my brother and my niece, Precious.
16:59At the time, she had lupus.
17:01But she was doing... she was in good health.
17:05By the time we go to my mother's house, the clouds and stuff start coming in.
17:11We can see how the sky is moving.
17:15That's what it's like right now.
17:18We're Category 5 about to come through.
17:24Man, I'm, like, ready to go.
17:26We're gonna try to get to Baton Rouge, man, with a half a tank of gas.
17:30Hopefully we don't get too trapped in traffic.
17:32One of my mom, a relative's cousin, he just walked through the cut and was like,
17:37I was like, man, where you going at?
17:39Man, my cussie got enough gas.
17:42Just enough to get us down or we can get back.
17:47But if we can get some shelter, we'll be all right.
17:49So I was able to get him and we was able to move forward, I would say.
17:53We wasn't completely out of the woods, but just moving forward.
17:56Now we about to leave out, man.
18:00We about to, me and Cussie headed to Baton Rouge.
18:03But I don't think a 175 mile park will win.
18:07We can handle down here.
18:13During the time of Katrina, there was an evacuation order.
18:16And what frightened me was the number of people that were still in the city.
18:25Obviously firemen need to be ready to rescue people.
18:29And if you're in a fire station that's not well located,
18:33you're not going to be able to rescue people.
18:35So for our area of last refuge, we were going to Lake Marina Tower.
18:39That's the building we're going to be in, right up there.
18:44Lake Marina Tower is at the northernmost part of the Lakeview area.
18:50That was higher ground than most of the surrounding area.
18:54As the city was emptying out, I was on Interstate 10.
19:01These thousands of cars going past me and my photographer all going one direction, which was out of town.
19:08Then we got back on the eastbound lane and went into the city.
19:13We went to the Hyatt downtown.
19:17We stayed there because the mayor was staying there and the police chief was staying with him as well.
19:23The Hyatt Regency had areas where we could hunker down and actually spend the night.
19:28So we brought our families over to the Hyatt Regency.
19:33And at the time, my wife was eight months pregnant and I had a three-year-old.
19:39So I was happy that we had somewhere where they could be safe and I could do my job.
19:48Already hundreds of people have made their way to the Superdome.
19:52Driving cars, walking, taking buses, getting here by any means they can.
19:58There's at least 2,000 people here and buses are continuing to pull up as we are here bringing more people.
20:08I get a phone call pretty last minute letting me know that they had made a decision to open up the Superdome as a shelter of last resort.
20:19And that the National Guard had gotten the mission initially to screen, making sure that anyone who came into the dome wasn't bringing things that were potentially hazardous.
20:29You're thinking in terms of hopefully the dome turns out to be a safe place for all of us to be and be prepared to maybe stay there for a day or so until it's safe for people to go back to their homes.
20:50The circumstances changed. When I got to Elan Highway, the traffic was so jammed up.
20:59We're sitting there, we're sitting there, and I've noticed the gas meter only going down a little.
21:06And that's when it started to rain.
21:13They are experiencing some rain right now.
21:18The effects of this hurricane just starting to be felt here.
21:23If you can still get out, get out.
21:25It is time to run.
21:28And so things are going to continue to go downhill.
21:31And I think to the surprise of some of you in traffic right now, it's going downhill very quickly.
21:37The worst place actually that you could possibly be would be in an automobile.
21:43That thought was just running through my head like, man, what are we going to do? We're going to run out of gas.
21:52I'm stuck on side of the highway. My cousin, he couldn't swim. What are we going to do?
22:02Take a look at the twin spans in terms of rain. We've got some heavy cells around, especially over Lake Pontchartrain. A couple have just passed the twin spans. They continue to rotate out over the lake. Once you get toward eastern sections of the wall.
22:19I heard on the news that the Superdome would be a shelter of last resort.
22:23Of course, the city has opened up several shelters, the biggest one being the Superdome.
22:27So I was like, well, let me just turn around. I mean, how could we go wrong? The Superdome is huge. They have parking, you know, all around the place.
22:35We were some of the last to actually get in that particular night.
22:47Here we are amongst the general population.
22:53Black folks, boy.
22:56Good to see the black folks. That's all it is, isn't it?
23:01When I first got there and I started gazing the crowd.
23:04Yeah, because you're in the Superdome.
23:07I looked around and I seen some whites here or there.
23:11But they did stick out like a sore thumb.
23:14It was mostly, like, black people.
23:17So I was like, oh, man, we're all in here together.
23:21We're here at the Louisiana Superdome.
23:29Inside right now, an estimated 12,000 people are going to ride out the storm.
23:36Sunday night, as the storm's coming in, we hunkered down at the Hyatt Hotel.
23:44Most of the team was, like, on the 23rd or 27th floor.
23:48We were just going to ride it out there. That was the initial plan.
23:56The calmness before a storm is one of the most peaceful, scariest things that a person can experience.
24:12That quiet calmness. It was, like, deafening.
24:22It was an eerie feeling that you knew, oh, this is going to be bad.
24:28Right now, Hurricane Katrina looks like one of the biggest, baddest storms ever recorded in U.S. history.
24:40You know, because we have so many people that aren't able to leave the city,
24:45I cannot think of a worse-case scenario than what's panning out.
24:51What a tragedy this looks like it's going to be.
24:57It would make a disaster, a tragedy.
25:03A tragedy is when we fail to do what we should be doing.
25:11And the first tragedy of Katrina was not being prepared, not having in this city an exit strategy for the 100,000 people that we knew.
25:39That we knew didn't have no means of escape.
25:43Evacuation is a difficult task at best out of New Orleans.
25:50So we studied it very closely. We studied it very closely. We studied it very closely.
25:55And this is one of our nightmare scenarios.
25:57Hurricane Pam, a federally funded exercise to plan for a catastrophic hurricane in southeast Louisiana.
26:09Hurricane Pam was an exercise that we had done the year before, bringing together state agencies, federal agencies, local officials, trying to understand what a catastrophic event would look like in New Orleans.
26:25One of the discussions during the Hurricane Pam exercise was how to deal with evacuees.
26:35And the first glaring fact was that there was going to be many tens of thousands who couldn't get out.
26:45At least 120,000. And within that were many disabled, elderly and people who didn't own motor vehicles.
26:55So there was a lot of knowledge beforehand of the consequences of the storm.
27:03A massive storm surge, 20 feet of water in the city, and hundreds of thousands stranded.
27:15I have seen destruction from hurricanes. And I didn't want to be in it. But I just really didn't have a choice.
27:27My mother was in a wheelchair. So wherever we went, she went.
27:35I decided to go by my brother's house in the Lower Ninth Ward to stay with him and some other family members.
27:45It was my mom's, my sisters, my family. You know, we were going to ride out the storm at my little brother's house.
27:56My brother had one of those historic homes. It was lifted up on piers and he had very high ceilings.
28:05And so it was high ground.
28:12I would have had to have left by ambulance. Being that I just had surgery.
28:20There were no ambulances coming in the neighborhood and picking up people that were recently out of the hospital.
28:26So we stayed. For whatever reason that you're forced to stay, you stay and you endure it.
28:37The poor, the sick and older people, you know, the elderly people, you know, those people should have been the first ones out.
28:45There was a plan called the Hurricane Pam plan, which involved getting together different bus systems to move people to safety north of the city.
28:58What happened, however, was that the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, basically punted because of financial reasons.
29:08Were we concerned that this would be something that would bear down on us at the category level that it did? Not at all.
29:18So we did not execute a plan per se for the buses to bring people out of the city.
29:28We did not have a plan for our buses to be used in that manner.
29:33Most hotels are sold out. For others, rooms are unaffordable and leaving impossible.
29:40I can't get out. How am I going to get out?
29:43You knew all of this was going to happen. Or you should have known.
29:55The main outer core is approaching right now. Get ready.
30:0312.38 right now, and all it's doing is raining.
30:18That night, about 12 or 12.30, it started raining hard. The winds was blowing.
30:23Oh, the wind is picking up kind of a bit, baby. Time to go back in the house.
30:28Going into midnight, I think everybody was just trying to rest a little bit.
30:35I probably dozed off a time or two because I still wasn't too worried at the time.
30:43In the middle of the night, beginning to be the early morning hours,
30:47I was in a regular room in the Hyatt, sleeping,
30:51when all of a sudden we heard the wind of Hurricane Katrina.
31:00Oh, man, I had never seen a blow like that ever.
31:03It was like somebody opened up the flaps on a wind machine.
31:06Hurricane force wind should extend as much as 100 miles radius beyond that eye of Katrina.
31:21And then that wind starts, and the destruction starts at that point.
31:29You can hear the sound of glass breaking and metal twisting as the eye wall moves ashore.
31:42We have seen transformer blue flashes out on the horizon,
31:46and that's an indication that the powers are going out in many areas.
31:49Just like that, in the middle of our story, the street lights went out.
31:55Of course, the electricity goes off.
31:58And for many people, there's no more TV, no more radio.
32:06It was just total darkness.
32:08We felt isolated.
32:10It was so scary.
32:20Around 5 in the morning, Katrina started to move ashore.
32:29The storm wasn't a category 5 when it made landfall.
32:33If you're just tuning in here in Louisiana,
32:35we're waking up to a category 4 hurricane,
32:37but it is just below category 5.
32:42When it made landfall, the storm goes on the east side.
32:46The eye of the storm missed New Orleans by 35 miles.
32:52But it went directly through St. Bernard Parish.
32:58I was in a valley canal in St. Bernard.
33:02My boat's up against the levee,
33:04and that's where the hurricane hit us.
33:07It was something you'll never forget.
33:11From my boat, what I see is the surge.
33:15It's coming out with full force.
33:20And the waves hit them levees every 7 seconds.
33:23The height of the levee is just as big as the wave or the hurricane.
33:32There was no way that was going to hold.
33:36The water's starting to come in over the levees.
33:41Even though the eye of Katrina didn't even hit New Orleans.
33:44In the back of my mind was the waves from the Gulf of Mexico heading the wetlands of coastal Louisiana.
34:00Since the 1930s, we've lost over a million acres of our coastal wetlands.
34:04And that's our outer line of defence for storm surge.
34:06That's what really used to knock the stuffing out of the storm surge.
34:10And as a result, every year the potential surges get worse and worse and worse.
34:15So this storm, a Category 4, Category 5, is our worst nightmare.
34:20In the Lower Ninth Ward, there was rain, but it wasn't a torrential rain.
34:35When it comes to flooding, the Lower Ninth Ward usually did pretty good.
34:42In the Lower Ninth Ward, we didn't really flood.
34:45We got flood water in the streets.
34:47But the swamp kind of protected us because the water would drain into the swamp.
34:55The swamp was located on the other side of the railroad tracks on Florida Avenue.
35:00It was our wonderland.
35:05You see cypress trees with moss hanging on them.
35:12I couldn't tell you the exact year.
35:14One day, you know, you walk back there and you notice that the trees were dying.
35:21The cypress trees.
35:23And the cypress trees were the trees that kept the swamp alive.
35:27When I initially arrived in the 70s to do my graduate studies,
35:38south and east and west of New Orleans were huge cypress swamps.
35:42And for thousands of years, the best protection from hurricanes that we've had were these coastal wetlands.
35:56Here's the wetland.
35:58Here's the lake or bay.
36:00The storm surge comes along, and then it hits the wetlands.
36:08The trees form like a maze.
36:10The water's got to go around this tree, then go around that tree, then go around that tree.
36:14And so the storm surge gets rapidly reduced.
36:21But it didn't take me long to realize that Louisiana is losing its wetlands at a hell of a rate.
36:29Including the wetlands around the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard.
36:44Within my lifetime, all around here where we were at was all oak trees and woods.
36:48And within my lifetime, it all disappeared.
36:55Now we have no trees that break the water.
37:00We have nothing to slow it down anymore.
37:04Nothing at all.
37:09Between 60 and 80% of the wetland loss is a consequence of the oil and gas industry
37:15and their activities in coastal Louisiana.
37:24It's the oil industry.
37:26They're the ones who caused this.
37:31But each one of y'all came up in here in a car.
37:34All of y'all buying their products.
37:39You can't throw blame at them without accepting your blame.
37:45That's what makes it a tragedy.
37:49Because we are so drunk on prosperity.
37:54We ain't destroyed that first natural line of defense.
38:00At like six in the morning, you can see people starting to peel the covers off of their heads.
38:16Because they heard the same thing that I heard.
38:17I'm like, what is that?
38:23And boom, we hear just rumbling.
38:28And that's when we first seen the water.
38:32We have rain inside the superdome. I repeat, rain inside the dome.
38:43Now the thought process is if we getting wet on the inside of the superdome, then what's going on on the outside?
38:50It was a complete mess for a while, you know?
38:51It was a complete mess for a while, you know?
38:52It was a complete mess for a while.
38:53And when my boat's up against the levee.
38:54It was a complete mess for a while, you know?
38:55It was a complete mess for a while, you know?
38:56And when my boat's up against the levee.
38:57And it was a complete mess for a while, you know?
39:02And when my boat's up against the levee, and I had to go out there, up on the rigging and secure the lines a little better.
39:30So I got swiped off the rigging, wound up hanging on a rope.
39:37The wind springed me out, came back on the boat and came in the cabin, drank another cup of coffee and a shot of whiskey.
39:50Then for a moment, when the eye of the storm came in, everything calmed down.
39:57But then all of a sudden, all hell broke loose when she broke off the west.
40:12The second half of the hurricane was worse than the first half.
40:14The winds have really picked up here.
40:17It feels to me that this may be, for us, the worst part of the storm.
40:21So, at the Lake Marina Tower, the nine of us firefighters woke up at the crack of dawn and the wind was howling outside.
40:40The windows were allegedly raided for 150 miles an hour.
40:44As you can see, our situation is deteriorated.
40:51But they blew out in the front and immediately vented out the back.
40:59In those early morning hours, when Katrina hit, I was in the Hyatt Hotel along with the rest of the executive staff of the mayor.
41:14But then, all of a sudden, we heard windows begin to break.
41:25We had someone come over the PA system and they said,
41:29we need everyone to evacuate to the third floor of the hotel.
41:34They made the right call in telling us to evacuate to the atrium because looking back at it, I mean, it was absolutely shredded.
41:43The storm had passed.
42:08We were all relieved.
42:10We had survived.
42:14Having seen what we did in the last couple of hours, this is looking relatively calm.
42:21I have seen a few cars out and about, a few police cars that seem to be making the rounds.
42:26But one of the things that's most interesting to me is the water level and the street underneath it.
42:32It looks definitely as though it has dropped to some considerable degree.
42:37After the storm hit, it was like four inches of water on the street and it wasn't flooding or anything.
42:46Right where we were, it was maybe about seven, eight inches in the streets, which wasn't a problem.
42:55But it was weird because we see more water coming up in the street than we normally do.
43:04We realized, we realized it's not a normal hurricane aftermath because all of a sudden the water started rising very quickly.
43:17And I said, where is water coming from?
43:21I had to leave out of my house, man.
43:24I don't know whether that water is coming over that levee or what.
43:27We were 19 stories up in Lake Marina Tower.
43:31So, you know, we had quite a view of the entire city.
43:37As you can see from here, it's pretty much complete devastation across the city.
43:44It was...
43:46It was apocalyptic.
43:48And I realized that the situation was gonna get far, far worse.
44:02I learned the way over that area of the sea.
44:04I'm a bit surprised to see.
44:05We went down from here, so we went down to here.
44:07And I said, the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea, the sea.
44:09So, you know, it was a good plan.
44:12And I said, I thought, we were gonna be well.
44:14So, we got to watch the sea.
44:15We got to watch the sea, then we're gonna miss this one.
44:18So, we went down with the sea, but we can't do something.
44:20So, I'm wondering if we didn't get to be the sea.
44:23So, we'll be well...
44:24Actually, we'll just go through this one.
44:27So, I'm going over there now.
44:30This is an example.
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