right now, and one of these bands of rain. it's not so much the wind that concerns city officials here but the rainfall. they're expecting 10 to 20 inches over the course of the next few days, and that is a problem because of the pumps that they have in the city. they brought in extra ones yesterday. the way those pumps work, they can only handle so much. here is the mayor talking about how they plan to deal with the rainfall. >> our city can handle the first 5 inches comfortably, after that, 1 inch every additional hour, when you have a forecast of 30 inches, the math doesn't work. >> reporter: and they really haven't had a major storm in morgan city hit them directly since 2012. a lot of people are bracing themselves. there was a voluntary evacuation order yesterday but not many people actually left town. we know that a large portion of the town is now out of power.