♪ squeak-squeakin' in the truck bed all the way home ♪ ♪ some alabama-jamma, she my dixieland delight ♪ ♪ ayy, that's how we do, ♪ ♪ how we do, fancy like, oh ♪ >> eric: a few minutes ago mike tobin was defiantly braving the winds of ida. as you can see, he's still standing. mike, how is it going? >> well, in the last half hour, ki tell you, eric -- i can tell you, eric, it seems the intensity of the wind gusts are picking up. the volume of water, right don't i step out on canal street right now since there's no traffic, one of the things you can see by looking at the street, as the sheets of rain come through, it just kind of manifests in the forms of waves here on the streets. and the problem with the volume of waer that's coming through, you have heard people talking about it, that new orleans is essentially a bowl because when it was built as they expanded with the development, they