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Backyard and they told us that they built this wall here, this concrete wall is 7 feet above sea level, and back in that direction their dock, that is about 5 feet above sea level. So you can see how the water is literally started to get over the 5foot marker and lapping against the 7foot tall wall here, but as we were telling you in the last hour, the thing about this is, this is a lowlying area, so you can see the house back there, its built up on stilts, all of them around here are, in fact, if we keep panning fully around, you can see the house back there, all under stilts, living is all raised. You have places where people can raise boats, they can raise their cars, all belongs off the ground to try and keep the water at bay, now, we want to show you some video because we are hearing reports of some issues we will levies, its not breach of levies, they just had conference and they we wanted to emphasize that zero levies in the state of louisiana have breached or broken but they ar ....
We have cnn correspondents all over the storm zone and at the cnn Severe Weather center natasha chen is in morgan city where we just showed you those homes and where officials are concerned about the overwhelming amount of rain now falling. Nat ash natasha, how are people handling the storm so far . Reporter ana, this is still a very serious wind and rain event and it has not let up in the last few hours and the vid why you just showed of the roof coming off of that mobile home, that is not too far from where we are, just a few block away. We understand those people, thankfully, were not at home when that happened and they were able to go inside and sort of inspect the damage there. What we are hearing from the mayor is that thankfully, there arent any reports of injuries and people needing rescuing in morgan city, as well which is great news and he did tell me within the past hour that as far as the power outables ges and a 6 00 ....