possible wind damage barry is still a tropical storm, flirting with hurricane strength, which would mean roof damage, fallen trees, downed power lines, brian young is live in algiers louisiana, right up against that mighty mississippi, what are people telling you there, are they hunkering down or going to get out of town? well, you know, there are some people who decided they re not going anywhere. they have a lot of people who are walking around us. you have a family coming out to look at the mississippi themselves. there are people who have markers on their own. they believe they ve seen the mississippi rise in the last hour or so. you know how much precaution they re putting into this. you have police officers working 12 hour shifts. 118 of their pumps are up and running. you saw water in the streets, there are still cars along the
efforts. there s that 10 to 15 inches of rain we re expecting. they don t have one sandbag out here, they believe they can handle whatever comes their way. they hear the word tropical storm, they don t think hurricane, they think they re okay. city officials are telling everyone to be prepared, look here, you can see people walking their dogs, you understand the difference. good to see regular life rolling along in algiers. we ll see how they fair. thank you very much. hurricane katrina got hit in 2005, it was a nightmare scenario for the city of new orleans a category 5 hurricane followed by dozens of levees, that were meant to hold back lake pontchartrain. overall, roughly 80% of new orleans flooded to depths of 20