little, too late? jonathan serrie is live on orange beach, alabama. what do you the idea? do you like it? >> reporter: good morning, bill, behind me, is a $4.5 million project, look at the construction there, on the other side of the bridge, they are driving pilings, concrete pilings into the bottom of perdido pass, the inlet i'm standing on now and they'll eventually suspend a 32 inch diameter pipe all the way across perdido path and will be filled with foam so it floats and will be suspended from chains from the pilings you see them driving into the water and into the bottom of the path and then, in addition, to the 32 inches in diameter of the pipe, it will have flaps on it, extending 18 inches above and 18 inches below the idea being that it will offer much more protection than traditional boom, this