be felt nearly 300 miles from the center, which means that millions of people across the south from georgia to virginia will be affected. this is the scene in the towns of myrtle beach and south port, south carolina. they are facing life threatening storm surge from hurricane ian. we are also getting a fuller picture of the devastation on the ground now in towns across florida. the new york times describing it this way. quote, the scale of the wreckage was staggering. even to florida residents who had survived and rebuilt after other powerful hurricanes, this storm pulverized roads. it toppled trees, gutted downtown store fronts and set cars afloat, leaving a soggy scar of ruined homes and businesses from the coastal cities of naples and fort myers to inland communities across the state including orlando. at least 14 deaths have been linked to the storm. more than 1.8 million people are now without power. more than 700 rescues have taken place including these from sanibel i
water pass beneath them. they ve experienced those problems before. obviously our pump system can only handle one inch of rain water the first hour and a half inch every hour after that. so i like to say our streets are designed as retention ponds. fortunately in jefferson parish we haven t had much structure flooding even with eight inches we received the other day. if we have isolated events of 15 inches of rain or 12 inches of rain, yes, we are going to have structure flooding. they re telling us now for jefferson parish we may only receive four to six inches of rain. that s better for us. and a lot of these winds are certainly going to take our power system down and our company has 421 crews in jefferson parish working to restore power as quickly as possible. we only have about 6,000 customers out right now. charles: mike yenni, we appreciate you coming on in this tough period and we re praying
lot of that stuff that will dry out and be fine or do you think you re going to have large-scale rebuilding to have to do? most of what you saw across the world in the media today was the interstate system, and that most of it is completely drivable right now. we have the first thing we did, more than 750 cars, getting them off and getting the roads open, getting mud off the roads and it s fine. we will do a critical infrastructure assessment tomorrow morning. bridge by bridge. overpass by overpass. to make sure that nothing was undermined. our it is unusual, however, for there to be structure flooding, and particularly structure floodings of this magnitude. the area, particularly brays bayou, where we had a lot of the overflow, the army corps of engineers and our flood control district did a major overhaul of that bayou after tropical storm allison. it s wider, it s deeper, it moves water better.
rebuilding to have to do? northeastmost of what you saw across the world in the media today was the interstate system and that most of it is completely drivable right now. we have the first thing we did, more than 750 cars getting them off and getting the roads open, getting mud off the roads and it s fine. we will do a critical infrastructure assessment tomorrow morning. bridge by bridge. overpass by overpass. to make sure that nothing was undermined. our it is unusual, however, for there to be structure flooding, and particularly structure floodings of this magnitude. the area particularly brays bayou, where we had a lot of the overflow, the army corps of engineers and our flood control district did a major overhaul of that bayou after tropical storm allison. it s wider, it s deeper, it moves water better. it holds water better. and yet i hate to think what
most of it is completely drivable right now. we have the first thing we did, more than 750 cars, getting them off and getting the roads open, getting mud off the roads and it s fine. we will do a critical infrastructure assessment tomorrow morning. bridge by bridge. overpass by overpass. to make sure that nothing was undermined. our it is unusual, however, for there to be structure flooding, and particularly structure floodings of this magnitude. the area, particularly brays bayou, where we had a lot of the overflow, the army corps of engineers and our flood control district did a major overhaul of that bayou after tropical storm allison. it s wider, it s deeper, it moves water better. it holds water better. and yet i hate to think what would have happened had we not done the billion dollars of infrastructure across the city