channel. the back levee has been overtopped so much that there s 12 foot of water against the mississippi river levee, but inside the levee system, areas that never had water from katrina are inundated with water. billy, any idea of why this happened? well, we had a mandatory evacuation because of the storm currently projections for that area were 9 to 12 feet with we had an eight-foot levee. that was a parish levee that wasn t in the federal system. the parish has been adding to that every year and we just needed three or four more years without a storm. obviously we didn t get that with the this event here today. we ve been hearing about the dozens of rescues taking place throughout plaquemines parish by the national guard as well as bystanders that were paying attention. those people living in st. bernard s parish which is right next door to plaquemines parish were out on the roads trying to