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reporter: they re doing the best they can. what we have seen as we come out from morgan city to stevensville is every house on stevensville road has been sandbagged. i ve never seen this before. i ve seen sandbagging here and there, but every home. they re up about three, four feet. they think that will be enough protection. we have water surrounding this entire area. if you have ever been to louisiana, there s water areas. bayous, and canals. that water comes down from the spillway, down the river, the basins fill up and backs into this area. this water will come in tr y actually it will come in from across the street, that side is lower. in 1973, they had about three to four feet of water here. that s the benchmark here. they are thinking it may be as bad as that and they re keeping their fingers crossed it won t be as bad. they expect the water to arrive tuesday. it was about a 72 process to get it from there down to here

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