do. there is one of these gusts, that eunice is talking about. very few of them now. there s virtually no rain. this feels like a typical new orleans, gusty, night where it s humid, it s a little bit of, agus this will go, away and it s over with. in fact one of the things we ve been seeing increasingly as police vehicles around the city. typically seeing they wait until the gusts are below a certain level, so they are not walking around while they re having trees fall on them or things like, that it is not common enough to have those bucket trucks out there, repairing power lines in trees, there are a lot of trees down around here, and generally speaking, if the hurricane finishes overnight, they wait until firstly anyway, so that people are not driving over things and creating more problems. it looks like things are getting a bit more still here. you can still see, it s been 12 hours since this thing made landfill in louisiana and it s
i saw as you often, see those bucket trucks, coming in, and there s sort of an interstate agreement, these trucks come from all over the country, the state in a lot of towns where they are not going to be in the eye of the thing. but they can stay in motels and in fact, where i m staying in new orleans, on this property, there are about 15 of those trucks, stage so they re ready to go out, these workers are very well trained at this, they will get out there and they will start, it s a two part operation, you have to cut the trees that are still a threat, you have to remove those trees so that the trucks can get their. and then you have to start repairing the line. so typically it starts within 24 to 36 hours, after the winds of all die down, and the rain has stopped. in the danger has been eliminated, and the water has receded. in most places we are not seeing flooding, but in some places we are. so there s no repairs to take place, but they do seem to be ready for this. so hopefully,
still howling. it wasn t safe. some of these are special forces they are not afraid of anything. we couldn t have it on our conscience to send them a situation we knew could be potentially deadly. we will get people as soon as we can we know those crawls coming and just know that your fellow louisianans and the united cajun navy network all around the country is responding and we are on the way. ainsley: brian, with the help from other states you cannot get i know this is probably not your area of expertise, but can you get the electricity back up? you said 30 days possibly. no, we don t have any experts. [lost audio] experts in recharging all the hubs around here. that s going to be up to enter guy which is the main company which controls movies the electric power down here in southern louisiana. they had already deployed a lot of linemen in bucket trucks and
they ll deal with those lines next. then they are going to deal with businesses and homes. lines to businesses and homes are going to come last. when we say people won t get power for seven to ten days, what you re likely to see is power restored to people who need it most, meaning hospitals, police, things like that early, maybe even the airport early and then you will see people who are in homes getting it last. there s two problems. one is the major transmission lines that are down. there are eight of them. they are all down. we have pictures of a power across the mississippi river that ran a power line. that tower is destroyed. then they have to fix the local things that have happened. things that have come down that have toppled lines. that s a physical go up there with those bucket trucks which are getting out today. first they have to clean roads and then get those bucket trucks. two things have to happen to get power electricity. cleaning the roads is important. you can see her
course of the storm, which are hearing in with the big concerns are right now. you know exactly how i m still standing, cause you ve done this as many times as i do. there is one of these gusts, that janessa is talking about. very few of them now. there s virtually no rain, this feels like a typical new orleans, gusty night, where it s humid. it s a little bit of agus, this will go away. and it s over with. in fact one of the things we ve been seeing increasingly as police vehicles around the city. typically speaking, they wait until the gusts are below a certain level, so they are not walking around while they are having trees fall on them or things like that. it s not calm enough to have those bucket trucks out there, repairing power lines and trees. there are a lot of trees down around here. generally speaking, if the hurricane finishes overnight, they wait until firstly anyway. so people are not driving over things, and creating more