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00:03If you're still hearing us and you haven't left yet, or you haven't made plans on leaving,
00:07please leave.
00:09I hate to say this, but I just don't have enough body bags.
00:16Here it comes, approach the front door.
00:46In order to prevent something from happening again, you've got to understand why it happened
00:54in the first place.
01:04So what is coming up?
01:06Are they back in the house?
01:08Yes, they are.
01:09They're trapped in.
01:10Hello!
01:11Are you upstairs?
01:15Katrina was a wake-up call.
01:18We got you, baby.
01:21But Leah fell back to sleep.
01:23They are the lucky ones saved from what FEMA now calls the most significant natural disaster.
01:29ever to hit the United States.
01:32Yeah, it was a disaster.
01:35We're going to be faced with disasters.
01:40But the tragedy of Katrina was man-made.
01:58Katrina was a hurricane of governmental failure, and it was a hurricane of mistruth and injustice.
02:10One of the police officers told me that it is a war zone out there.
02:15People are losing their minds.
02:19My, my grandma, one of y'all, if y'all out there, you heard me?
02:23And y'all hear you, son?
02:24Just let me know y'all are living, you heard me?
02:37It didn't have to happen like that.
02:40Not in America.
02:42We can't justify this.
02:44You can't justify what happened after Katrina.
03:08You can't justify what happened after Katrina.
03:15If it does grow in strength and become a tropical storm, it'll be named Katrina.
03:25Katrina was unlike any other hurricane.
03:29Thousands of people in South Florida have their eyes on Katrina as the storm has now just reached hurricane status.
03:34It's still pounding Miami-Dade County area, southern Broward County.
03:38All of a sudden now, it's starting to come towards us.
03:45Katrina is expected to become a very intense hurricane.
03:50That's what's developing with a hurricane now in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
03:55As you know, hurricanes feed off of warm water.
03:59In the days before Katrina, everything was going well.
04:03Even the sun was shining.
04:05It was like my kids was swimming in the swimming pool.
04:10Let's see our little pool.
04:11She done for the day, huh?
04:17And so when we first found out they had the hurricane coming,
04:21that thought too much fazed the people in New Orleans, you know?
04:27So many times that hurricanes were supposed to be coming here
04:30and they never came or turned off.
04:33Or we might have got some of the water, some of the winds.
04:36Or, you know, we might have not got nothing.
04:39I just felt like, you know, if the hurricane did come through,
04:43maybe they just passed through.
04:45And then the next day you're not going to go home and everything good.
04:49Because I still was preparing my suit for Mardi Gras.
04:56In New Orleans, people start preparing months ahead of time.
05:00I still remember my piece that I was working on.
05:04I still see it laying on the table.
05:08Everything that we're looking at indicates this hurricane has the potential
05:12to strengthen even more than it already has.
05:16We're not trying to frighten people.
05:17No, no.
05:18This is one that we are, quite frankly, very frightened of.
05:20We're concerned.
05:21Obviously, that concerns us a great deal.
05:23My siblings who live away from the city, they were talking about the storm.
05:29And they were like, come on, you got to get Mama, y'all come.
05:32And I'm like, I ain't leaving.
05:34You know, this is, you know, every time it happens, they're trying to make me leave.
05:39I said, I'm not leaving my property.
05:44This spot, it had history.
05:47My grandmother was born two doors from here.
05:51And so my family has roots in this bad boy way before the 1800s, all right?
06:04New Orleans is identified by the wards.
06:07If you ask somebody where they're from, they'll say the lower 9, upper 9, the 7, the 8.
06:12New Orleans East, the Tremate.
06:17What neighborhood you were from basically tells a story about us.
06:23The 7th Ward, that was our whole family.
06:26And in the lower 9th Ward, there was a lot of poverty here.
06:31However, there was always a lot of community where people looked after each other.
06:39The people put their heart and soul into this city to make it grow.
06:44And to make it a better city.
06:48That yearning.
06:50That culture.
06:53That music.
06:55That language.
06:58That no one else could understand.
07:01That close-knit community.
07:06Everything.
07:09Everything changed that day.
07:23The way I remember it, it started moving further west.
07:28Hurricane Katrina continues to move west in the Gulf of Mexico.
07:32The big question is...
07:33Look at this cone of error here.
07:34It basically runs from Pensacola out to south-central sections of Louisiana.
07:41Fear started to seep into everybody here in the city, and certainly at the station that I was working at.
07:48From WWL-TV.
07:50It was like, okay, this is really serious.
07:52This could turn out to be the big one.
07:56Here's the projected path on Katrina.
07:58Right now...
07:59What the weathermen were forecasting by Saturday was that this hurricane is too big to turn.
08:05It's gonna hit us.
08:08At the LSU Hurricane Center, from early on the Saturday morning, we were running storm surge models as Hurricane Katrina
08:18was approaching.
08:20And we knew then, we knew then and there, this was going to be a catastrophe.
08:31I had obtained a model from Louisiana State University of the potential for storm surge from that morning's hurricane predictions.
08:42Storm surge is that elevated water that is pushed in advance of the winds of the storm.
08:51In New Orleans' case, that water comes in either from the Gulf of Mexico or from lakes to the east
08:59and to the north, especially Lake Pontchartrain.
09:05Flood walls and levees surround the populated areas to protect them from flooding.
09:12But it was very clear that Hurricane Katrina's storm surge could overtop levees and cause dramatic disaster.
09:26For years, I tried to warn about something like Katrina, that we were sitting on a ticking time bomb.
09:39Storms in the Gulf, you typically had three, four days to watch them.
09:45But on Saturday, Katrina took a swivel toward us and that meant we were in full throttle mode.
09:54This is not a test. This is the real deal.
10:00Board your windows with plywood if you can.
10:04Make sure your car has enough gas in it.
10:07Do all the things that you normally do to prepare for a hurricane, but treat this one differently because it
10:14is pointed toward New Orleans.
10:21We are advising people to evacuate probably at daybreak on tomorrow.
10:27St. Bernard.
10:29It's not looking good for us down here in St. Bernard.
10:32I don't think I can go anywhere.
10:35First of all, I really don't have the money.
10:38The reason I had a video camera, I've been performing slam poetry.
10:42Poets scream wide. Poets scream. Poetry wide. Kids scream wide.
10:47So anywhere I would have went at that point in time, I was like still in the mode of like
10:52recording myself.
10:54This storm look like it's definitely coming, man. I mean like straight towards us.
10:59So that's a bad situation to be in.
11:01But I know God is gonna keep us from the storm. He said he's gonna protect us.
11:07Me being the Marines, you know, I'm a pretty good swimmer.
11:10Like survival skills, if the water came, like I know I could survive it.
11:15But I didn't want my moms to be here.
11:19You can see my mom, she's kind of tired. She's been cooking.
11:22I actually told my mom, I said, Ma, if I have to crack you over the head with a pot,
11:25knock you out, put you on my shoulder, you're gonna leave.
11:29She finally got out of there.
11:32But for myself, I didn't want to leave because I didn't know what we was gonna be coming back to.
11:40We had three houses in that property, including a home that I was starting to remodel.
11:46Like on my crib, just coming along.
11:50So I stayed behind and I just was praying.
11:58Saturday night, I received a blackberry ping from the mayor that said,
12:06SOS.
12:08Hurricane Katrina was now projecting to become a Category 5.
12:14And that meant a tale of destruction.
12:21That major hurricane barreling toward the Gulf Coast of the United States, Hurricane Katrina, is now a Category 5 hurricane.
12:29Category 5, which are the strongest hurricanes we know of, only three times before in U.S. history have Category
12:365 storms hit the U.S. mainland.
12:38This thing is a very strong Category 5, 170-mile-an-hour winds.
12:45People don't realize how big Katrina was.
12:47It covered the entire Gulf of Mexico.
12:51As perfect a hurricane as you've ever seen, if you can call a hurricane like this perfect.
13:00She ain't turning, she coming now.
13:03Y'all pulling out, huh?
13:06They done been around and seen so many, but they ain't never seen this kind.
13:10It's a 5, man, a full 5.
13:15Violet is not a good situation.
13:17It's a cold red.
13:22Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
13:25We're here for our update on Hurricane Katrina.
13:30I am this morning declaring that we will be doing a mandatory evacuation.
13:39Every person is hereby ordered to immediately evacuate the city of New Orleans.
13:46This is very serious, and it's of the highest nature, and that's why we're taking this unprecedented move.
13:53Do hereby promulgate...
13:55When the mayor announced the mandatory evacuation, it was Sunday.
14:01It was kind of late, because the storm was coming in that night.
14:06Never before in the history of New Orleans had a mandatory evacuation taken place.
14:14So we needed to do some legal work to ensure the city was not liable in the long term, and
14:21that we were keeping the people we needed to keep in the city of New Orleans, and at the same
14:26time ensuring everyone else left.
14:30So when the mayor makes the call to evacuate the city, we were more concerned from a police standpoint with
14:37the evacuation process, giving people a warning.
14:40The city of New Orleans is under mandatory evacuation. Everyone is advised to leave the area. We have a Category
14:475 hurricane coming.
14:48What the mayor did was he sent the police force into the area, using their PA systems, telling people to
14:57evacuate, and if they were unable to evacuate, that buses would be stationed throughout each neighborhood to take them to
15:05the Superdome, which is a sports arena in New Orleans, as a refuge of last resort.
15:12The Superdome would be opened up as a refuge of last resort. But let me emphasize, the first choice for
15:22every citizen is to figure out a way to leave the city.
15:28If the mayor is saying, hey, you need to leave. Yes, they do. It makes our job a lot easier.
15:35But how can they do that if they can't afford to?
15:43Within New Orleans, you have a high poverty rate. If you're going to tell poor people to leave, where are
15:51they going?
15:53Katrina hit at the worst time to be poor in America. By the end of the month, you ain't got
16:03no money.
16:06We didn't get hit with a big one for a long, long time, but this one felt different.
16:13We don't want to stay here, but for this one, I had this strange feeling. This vision in my head,
16:19like, foreshadowing.
16:20This is what's going to happen, man. I've seen water. But I do know the water's going to come.
16:29The time to go is right now to get on the road. Because if you don't, the window's going to
16:34clear around you pretty soon.
16:41On Sunday, we all went down by my mother's house. Then the 7th Ward to go and check on her.
16:49It was like five of us. We had the twins. The twins was like three and a half months.
16:55And then it was my brother and my niece, Precious. At the time, she had lupus. But she was doing,
17:03she was in good health.
17:05By the time we go to my mother's house, the clouds and stuff start coming in.
17:13We'll be sure how the skies is moving. That's what it's like right now. We're Category 5 about to come
17:20through.
17:24Man, I'm like ready to go. We're going to try to get to Baton Rouge, man, with a half a
17:29tank of gas. Hopefully we don't get too trapped in traffic.
17:33One of my mom, a relative's cousin, he just walked through the cut and was like, I was like, man,
17:38where you going at?
17:40Man, my Cussy got enough gas. Just enough to get us down or we can get back. But if we
17:48can get some shelter, we'll be all right.
17:49So I was able to get him and we was able to move forward, I would say. We wasn't completely
17:55out the woods, but just moving forward.
17:58Now we're about to leave out, man. We're about to, me and Cussy headed to Baton Rouge.
18:04But I don't think 175-mile power winds we can handle down here.
18:12During the time of Katrina, there was an evacuation order.
18:17And what frightened me was the number of people that were still in the city.
18:26Obviously, firemen need to be ready to rescue people.
18:29And if you're in a fire station that's not well located, you're not going to be able to rescue people.
18:35So for our area of last refuge, we were going to Lake Marina Tower.
18:39That's the building we're going to be in, right up there.
18:44Lake Marina Tower is at the northernmost part of the Lakeview area.
18:50That was higher ground than most of the surrounding area.
18:56As the city was emptying out, I was on Interstate 10.
19:02These thousands of cars going past me and my photographer, all going one direction, which was out of town.
19:09Then we got back on the eastbound lane and went into the city.
19:15We went to the Hyatt downtown.
19:18We stayed there because the mayor was staying there and the police chief was staying with him as well.
19:23The Hyatt Regency had areas where we could hunker down and actually spend the night.
19:29So we brought our families over to the Hyatt Regency.
19:33And at the time, my wife was eight months pregnant and I had a three-year-old.
19:39So I was happy that we had somewhere where they could be safe and I could do my job.
19:48Already hundreds of people have made their way to the Superdome, driving cars, walking, taking buses, getting here by any
19:56means they can.
19:58There's at least 2,000 people here and buses are continuing to pull up as we are here, bringing more
20:06people.
20:08I get a phone call pretty last minute letting me know that they had made a decision to open up
20:14the Superdome as a shelter of last resort.
20:18And that the National Guard had gotten the mission initially to screen, making sure that anyone who came into the
20:26dome wasn't bringing things that were potentially hazardous.
20:30You're thinking in terms of hopefully the dome turns out to be a safe place for all of us to
20:35be and be prepared to maybe stay there for a day or so until it's safe for people to go
20:44back to their homes.
20:52The circumstances changed. When I got to Elan Highway, the traffic was so jammed up.
20:59We're sitting there, we're sitting there, and I've noticed the gas meter only going down a little.
21:06And that's when it started to rain.
21:12They are experiencing some rain right now.
21:18The effects of this hurricane just starting to be felt here.
21:22If you can still get out, get out.
21:25It is time to run.
21:29And so things are going to continue to go downhill.
21:31And I think to the surprise of some of you in traffic right now, it's going downhill very quickly.
21:39The worst place actually that you could possibly be would be in an automobile.
21:46That thought was just running through my head like, man, what are we going to do? We're going to run
21:51out of gas.
21:54I'm stuck on the side of the highway.
21:58My cousin, he couldn't swim.
22:01What are we going to do?
22:08Take a look at the twin spans in terms of rain. We've got some heavy cells around, especially over Lake
22:12Pontchartrain. A couple have just passed the twin spans. They continue to rotate out over the lake. Once you get
22:18toward eastern sections of the wall.
22:19I heard on the news that the Superdome would be a shelter of last resort.
22:23Of course, the city has opened up several shelters, the biggest one being the Superdome.
22:27So I was like, well, let me just turn around. I mean, how could we go wrong? The Superdome is
22:32huge. They have parking, you know, all around the place.
22:37We were some of the last to actually get in that particular night.
22:46Here we are amongst the general population.
22:52Black folks, boy.
22:55Good to see the black folks. That's all it is, isn't it?
23:00How you doing?
23:01When I first got there and I started gazing the crowd.
23:04Hey, yeah, because you're in the Superdome.
23:06I looked around and I seen some whites here or there.
23:10But they did stick out like a sore thumb.
23:13It was mostly, like, black people.
23:16So I was like, oh, man, we're all in here together.
23:26We're here at the Louisiana Superdome.
23:29Inside, right now, an estimated 12,000 people are going to ride out the storm.
23:36Sunday night, as the storm's coming in, we hunkered down at the Hyatt Hotel.
23:44Most of the team was, like, on the 23rd or 27th floor.
23:48We were just going to ride it out there. That was the initial plan.
23:56The calmness before a storm is one of the most peaceful, scariest things that a person can experience.
24:13That quiet calmness, it was, like, deafening.
24:21It was an eerie feeling that you knew, oh, this is going to be bad.
24:32Right now, Hurricane Katrina looks like one of the biggest, baddest storms ever recorded in U.S. history.
24:42You know, because we have so many people that aren't able to leave the city,
24:45I cannot think of a worse-case scenario than what's panning out.
24:50What a tragedy this looks like it's going to be.
24:57It would make a disaster, a tragedy.
25:03A tragedy is when we fail to do what we should be doing.
25:19And the first tragedy of Katrina was not being prepared,
25:29not having in this city an exit strategy for the 100,000 people that we knew didn't have no means
25:42of escaping.
25:47Evacuation is a difficult task, at best, out of New Orleans.
25:50So we've studied it very closely. We've studied it very closely.
25:54We've studied it very closely, and this is one of our nightmare scenarios.
26:00Hurricane Pam, a federally funded exercise to plan for a catastrophic hurricane in southeast Louisiana.
26:10Hurricane Pam was an exercise that we had done the year before,
26:15bringing together state agencies, federal agencies, local officials,
26:21trying to understand what a catastrophic event would look like in New Orleans.
26:28One of the discussions during the Hurricane Pam exercise was how to deal with evacuees.
26:35And the first glaring fact was that there was going to be many tens of thousands who couldn't get out,
26:45at least 120,000.
26:48And within that were many disabled, elderly, and people who didn't own motor vehicles.
26:55So there was a lot of knowledge beforehand of the consequences of the storm.
27:04A massive storm surge, 20 feet of water in the city, and hundreds of thousands stranded.
27:14I have seen destruction from hurricanes, and I didn't want to be in it.
27:23But I just really didn't have a choice.
27:27My mother was in a wheelchair, so wherever we went, she went.
27:36I decided to go by my brother's house in the Lower Ninth Ward to stay with him and some other
27:44family members.
27:46It was my moms, my sisters, my family.
27:51We were going right out the storm at my little brother's house.
27:56My brother had one of those historic homes.
28:00It was lifted up on piers, and he had very high ceilings.
28:05And so, it was high ground.
28:11I would have had to have left by ambulance.
28:16Being that I just had surgery, there were no ambulances coming in the neighborhood
28:22and picking up people that were recently out of the hospital.
28:26So, we stayed.
28:28For whatever reason that you're forced to stay, you stay and you endure it.
28:36The poor, the sick and older people, you know, the elderly people, you know, those people should have been the
28:43first ones out.
28:45There was a plan called the Hurricane Pam Plan, which involved getting together different bus systems to move people to
28:55safety north of the city.
28:58What happened, however, was that the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, basically punted because of financial reasons.
29:09Were we concerned that this would be something that would bear down on us at the category level that it
29:16did?
29:16Not at all.
29:17So, we did not execute a plan, per se, for the buses to bring people out of the city.
29:27We did not have a plan for our buses to be used in that manner.
29:34Most hotels are sold out.
29:36For others, rooms are unaffordable and leaving impossible.
29:39I can't get out. How am I going to get out?
29:43You knew all of this was going to happen.
29:46Or you should have known.
29:55The main outer core is approaching right now.
29:59Get ready.
30:1212.38 right now.
30:14And all it's doing is raining.
30:18That night, about 12 or 12.30 started raining hard.
30:22The winds was blowing.
30:23Oh, the wind is picking up kind of a bit, baby.
30:26Time to go back in the house.
30:30Going into midnight, I think everybody was just trying to rest a little bit.
30:34I probably dozed off a time or two because I still wasn't too worried at the time.
30:43In the middle of the night, beginning to be the early morning hours,
30:47I was in a regular room in the Hyatt, sleeping,
30:51when all of a sudden we heard the wind of Hurricane Katrina.
31:00Oh, man, I'd never seen a blow like that ever.
31:03It was like somebody opened up the flaps on the wind machine.
31:06Boom!
31:13Hurricane force wind should extend as much as a hundred miles radius beyond that eye of Katrina.
31:20We're going to break in here.
31:22We're going to break in here.
31:22It's starting to fall apart.
31:23And then that wind starts, and the destruction starts at that point.
31:34You can hear the sound of glass breaking and metal twisting as the eye wall moves ashore.
31:41We have seen transformer blue flashes out on the horizon, and that's an indication that the powers are going out
31:48in many areas.
31:49Just like that in the middle of our story, the street lights went up.
31:55Of course, the electricity goes off.
31:58And for many people, there's no more TV, no more radio.
32:05It was just total darkness.
32:08We felt isolated.
32:12It was so scary.
32:19Around five in the morning, Katrina started to move ashore.
32:29The storm wasn't a category five when it made landfall.
32:32If you're just tuning in here in Louisiana, we're waking up to a category four hurricane, but it is just
32:38below category five.
32:41When it made landfall, the storm goes on the east side.
32:46The eye of the storm missed New Orleans by 35 miles.
32:51But it went directly through St. Bernard Parish.
32:57I was in the Valley Canal in St. Bernard.
33:01My boat's up against the levee, and that's where the hurricane hit us.
33:07It was something you'll never forget.
33:10From my boat, what I see is the surge.
33:15It's coming in there with full force.
33:19And the waves hit them levees every seven seconds.
33:25The height of the levee is just as big as a wave in a hurricane.
33:31It was no way that was going to hold.
33:35The water's starting to come in over the levees.
33:40Even though the eye of Katrina didn't even hit New Orleans.
33:46In the back of my mind was the waves.
33:52From the Gulf of Mexico, heading the wetlands of coastal Louisiana.
33:59Since the 1930s, we've lost over a million acres of our coastal wetlands.
34:04And that's our outer line of defense for storm surge.
34:07That's what really used to knock the stuffing out of the storm surge.
34:10And as a result, every year the potential surges get worse and worse and worse.
34:15So this storm of Category 4, Category 5, is our worst nightmare.
34:27In the Lower Ninth Ward, there was rain, but it wasn't a torrential rain.
34:34When it comes to flooding, the Lower Ninth Ward usually did pretty good.
34:42In the Lower Ninth Ward, we didn't really flood.
34:45We got flood water in the streets.
34:48But the swamp kind of protected us because the water would drain into the swamp.
34:54The swamp was located on the other side of the railroad tracks on Florida Avenue.
35:00It was our wonderland.
35:05You see cypress trees with moss hanging on them.
35:11I couldn't tell you the exact year.
35:16One day, you know, you walk back there and you notice that the trees were dying.
35:21The cypress trees.
35:23And the cypress trees were the trees that kept the swamp alive.
35:32When I initially arrived in the 70s to do my graduate studies,
35:38south and east and west of New Orleans were huge cypress swamps.
35:44And for thousands of years, the best protection from hurricanes that we've had were these coastal wetlands.
35:55Here's the wetland.
35:58Here's the lake or bay.
36:00The storm surge comes along.
36:03And then it hits the wetlands.
36:07The trees form like a maze.
36:10The water's got to go around this tree, then go around that tree, then go around that tree.
36:15And so the storm surge gets rapidly reduced.
36:21But it didn't take me long to realize that Louisiana is losing its wetlands at a hell of a rate.
36:34Including the wetlands around the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard.
36:43Within my lifetime, all around here where we were at was all oak trees and woods.
36:49And within my lifetime it all disappeared.
36:55Now we have no trees that break the water.
37:00We have nothing to slow it down anymore.
37:03Nothing at all.
37:08Between 60 and 80% of the wetland loss is a consequence of the oil and gas industry and their
37:16activities in coastal Louisiana.
37:23It's the oil industry.
37:26They're the ones who caused this.
37:30But each one of y'all came up in here in a car.
37:34All of y'all buying their products.
37:38Well, you can't throw blame at them without accepting your blame.
37:44That's what makes it a tragedy.
37:48Because we are so drunk on prosperity.
37:54We have destroyed that first natural line of defense.
38:08At like 6 in the morning, you can see people starting to peel the covers off of their heads.
38:15Because they heard the same thing that I heard.
38:18Hey!
38:20I'm like, what is that?
38:22What's up?
38:24And boom!
38:26Your head just rumbling.
38:29Yeah.
38:30And that's when we first seen the water.
38:34Oh, man, they got water coming.
38:35Wait!
38:37We have rain inside the superdome. I repeat.
38:41Rain inside the dome.
38:47Now the thought process is if we getting wet on the inside of the superdome, then what's going on on
38:54the outside?
39:17It was a complete mess for a while there, you know?
39:21Well, my boat's up against the levee.
39:23And, uh, I had to go off there, up on the rigging and secure the lines a little better.
39:32So I got swiped off the rigging, wound up hanging on a rope.
39:37The wind springed me out, came back on the boat and, uh, came in the cabin, drank another cup of
39:44coffee and a shot of whiskey.
39:50Then for a moment, when an eye of the storm came in, everything calmed down.
39:59But then all of a sudden, all hell broke loose when she broke out the west.
40:11The second half of the hurricane was worse than the first half.
40:15The winds have really picked up here.
40:17It feels to me that this may be, for us, the worst part of the storm.
40:29So, at the Lake Marina Tower, the nine of us firefighters woke up at the crack of dawn and the
40:36wind was howling outside.
40:39The windows were allegedly raided for 150 miles an hour.
40:50As you can see, our situation is deteriorated.
40:54But they blew out in the front and immediately vented out the back.
41:04In those early morning hours, when Katrina hit, I was in the Hyatt Hotel along with the rest of the
41:12executive staff
41:13of the mayor.
41:16But then, all of a sudden, we heard windows begin to break.
41:25We had someone come over the PA system and they said,
41:29we need everyone to evacuate to the third floor of the hotel.
41:35They made the right call in telling us to evacuate to the atrium because looking back at it,
41:41I mean, it was absolutely shredded.
42:04The storm had passed.
42:08We were all relieved.
42:10We had survived.
42:14Having seen what we did in the last couple of hours, this is looking relatively calm.
42:20I have seen a few cars out and about, a few police cars that seem to be making the rounds.
42:26But one of the things that's most interesting to me is the water level and the street underneath it.
42:32It looks definitely as though it has dropped to some considerable degree.
42:39After the storm hit, it was like four inches of water on the street.
42:44And there wasn't flooding or anything.
42:47Right where we were, it was maybe about seven, eight inches in the streets, which wasn't a problem.
42:56But it was weird because we see more water coming up in the street than we normally do.
43:05We realized it's not a normal hurricane aftermath.
43:13Because all of a sudden the water started rising very quickly.
43:18And I said, where is water coming from?
43:21I had to leave out of my house, man.
43:24I don't know whether that water is coming over that levee or what.
43:29We were 19 stories up in Lake Marina Tower.
43:33So, you know, we had quite a view of the entire city.
43:37As you can see from here, it's pretty much complete devastation across the city.
43:44It was...
43:47It was apocalyptic.
43:53And I realized that the situation was going to get far, far worse.
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