maybe isolated amounts to 20 inches leading to serious flash flooding. i m worried and you are like every american, the big waves getting to the louisiana coast and mississippi coast and alabama coast and hampering the efforts of the oil containment. booms are not effective when what kind of waves might they see in south mississippi, lower alabama? well offshore we re anticipating as much as eight to ten foot swells. we re fortunate the storm didn t go in there but it s causing curtailment of the offshore activities. i m not aware of the impact on land but the elevation of the tides alone mean areas that otherwise weren t getting water intrusion with the oil on it will experience some of that. a long, hot summer for them. good luck, i know you ll be busy.