reach any of the levee systems we have in place but again it is all unfolding right now and we will have to wait and see. to wait and see. hurricane ida intensified to wait and see. hurricane ida intensified very to wait and see. hurricane ida intensified very quickly, - to wait and see. hurricane ida j intensified very quickly, didn t to wait and see. hurricane ida - intensified very quickly, didn t it? from a1 to two and overnight to a four, has it finished growing and developing? and thinking it was in the past before it started to make its way to you. the past before it started to make its way to you- its way to you. yes, it passed a cube and its way to you. yes, it passed a cube and went its way to you. yes, it passed a cube and went into its way to you. yes, it passed a cube and went into the - its way to you. yes, it passed a cube and went into the gulf - its way to you. yes, it passed a cube and went into the gulf ofl cube and went into the gulf of mexico and basica
governor. we re more resilient with the amount of infrastructure improvements that were made in the levee systems in and around new orleans, and along the coast with the coastal protection procedures that have been put in with gates and locks to try and control that water. but mother nature can break anything built by man. if you can keep it out of new orleans, but it may go to slidell if there s pressure on it. so we still have the worst part of the storm in front of us. i know it s caused some destruction along the coast, but the bigger part of the population, our oil and gas industry is going to be significantly impacted with that forward push on, and there s about 150 chemical plants in the
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
state fire marshal and the governor s office of homeland security and emergency preparedness. we re as prepared as we can be and ready to ride this thing out. you say if people have decided to stay that local ems may not be able to get to them right away. they re going to do their best here, but we re talking about insane wind and rainfall. do you have any indication of how many people are going to try to ride this out? by our estimates we had about 50% of the population evacuate. so 50,000 are still here, give or take. the parish president, does that worry you? i mean that s a lot of people. yeah. look, i told somebody a minute ago, out of 10 i m at a 7. especially from the hurricane hunters who update the wind gusts around the eyewall. this will be the strongest storm to hit lafourche parish and test our levee systems and our pumping infrastructure and how fast we can get the water out as it continues to fall.
what we re really concerned with is out of the federal system, so some of the local levees, some of those could over-top. it s a test of the system. once you get the storm surge in and out, it s still the rainfall that occurs. so just because you start reducing the surge over the next few hours, i m still so concerned about the amount of rain that could fall over the next 24, 36 hours. we re going to have to watch that as well as some of the water gets inside the levee systems. aside from the storm surge and the wind, obviously there s a risk for spin-off tornadoes that comes with this storm. how does that change things? can you talk about that at all? it does. it s interesting. when you look at the tropical systems, you think the movement of about like this, that s the movement of the storm currently. you draw a line through the center. 90% of the tornadoes occur in the right front quadrant. look at alabama, look at portions of mississippi.