in our parish for post storm evacuations. we have 200 national guard troops in our parish to help our firefighters and our law enforcement officers in security measures and also in search and rescue. so, you know, we re just hoping that we get the response that we need, obviously, we re going need help when this thing comes through. and i have the governor s phone number. i have the congressman s phone number. we have the people and we know the people. i m sure everybody is going to help. i ve received a lot of texts. in the surrounding parishes we help one another. i m sure if i need help, we ll have plenty of people willing to do so. yeah. no question. please keep us posted, as well, as you move through this. our thoughts are with you guys as the storm comes in. thank you so much for taking the time with us. and we should point out ida s path is on a crash course with more than city. we re talking with the mayor
2005. so it is a much more hardy and secure system that is now used as a model around the world. including in the netherlands. so it is something that we feel comfort in and it s fortunate too because we had a short timeline with this rapidly intensifying hurricane, so evacuation was a real issue and we re able to say with some degree of comfort to shelter in place, if you have to, as a last resort and then what we re working on right now is the potential for post storm evacuations, if that becomes necessary and we will make that clear if and when that decision needs to be made. mike: when you heard hurricane ida was category 4 with possibility of it becoming category 5, what was your reaction, collin? it didn t surprise me. the 5 did a little bit. and i think that upon evaluation, which they always do after these events, it is possible that this might be