heavier. the bands are going to get stronger and they are going to get more frequent over the next several hours. true landfall of this storm is expected around 1:00 p.m. eastern time or noon central time, which is local time just to the west of new orleans. but i say just to the west because really not that far to the west. here is some of those outer bands. again slidell, new orleans, you can see these starting to slide in. these are not peak. these are just where they are at now as the storm is approaching. you have several numbers here in the two to three feet range. however, those numbers are going to keep going up. these are the peak numbers of where we expect them to be throughout the morning and early afternoon. the pink area here including grand isle 12 to 16 feet. if you went to bed last night, these numbers have changed as you are waking up. most of these numbers have gone up one, maybe two feet from where they were yesterday evening. not dramatic changes, but not in the dir
stayed who have real faith in the walls that are around them in the flood walls and in the levees and the pumping systems. but that doesn t necessarily help rain, correct? when we re talking about in excess of 15 inches of rain, what would you say to those people that stayed? yeah, you got to be in a safe place because you think about the storm surge and the evacuations that took place and outside those levee systems, but that is a scary life-threatening amount of rainfall forecast. so you think about this area in red is 10 to 20 inches of rain. so our forecast for the center, you know, you get close to the center, and that right-hand side just a devastating amount of rainfall. the metro new orleans area, covington, slidell. the mississippi coast as well. also in alabama. look how far away some of these values, 10 inches of rain. there could be flooding from