joining me is gordon dove. you haven t slept overnight. i know it s tough, but ida in perspective for us. this is definitely the worst hurricane to hit our parish. we had rita in 05, gustav in 08, but this is more devastating than any hurricane we ve ever had. reporter: how does it feel having grown up here yourself to go through the struggle yet again? we live on the gulf coast and hurricanes have been, you know, have been a fixture in our lives and all the way back to hurricane betsy in, i think, 1965, and we ll just clean up and we ve got a long we ve got a lot job ahead of us. our responders are out, we ll start clearing roads, we have