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Can see how much water has come up above the banks of this river. if we look on the other side, guys. this is the historic downgts morgan city area. this is a small little city here in southern louisiana. and at this point right now, this is still a tropical storm with, i think, 65 mile-per-hour wind gusts being reported. they are expecting that up to get up to the 75 miles per hour threshold which will make this a category 1 hurricane. this is going to be the big first storm of this season. it s a little bit early to be talking about these storms to be honest with you. usually these are more september october stories. here we are down here and at this point louisiana is bracing for water. that s what they are really worried about. wind is one thing but water. there are so many different ways as the governor was just saying yesterday that louisiana can flood so much of this state, especially down in these areas that s built below sea level so you have got a ton of rivers that come up. ....