every precaution you can to save life and proper >> this is movinth and ita bighreat toe rest the c jo eardswith emergency preparedness in baton rouge. give us the sense, is your state ready for this? and did enough of your residents get out of way ahead of the storm? >> first, ed, thank you very much. we'll know whether or not enough people evacuated. it appears hundreds of thousands of people took the opportunity yesterday to leave. especially in the low-lying areas in southeast louisiana, along the coast. those that are not protected by our much enhanced hurricane and storm risk reduction system, the one you mentioned a while ago, where there has been about a $14 billion investment since hurricane katrina over the past 16 years. all of our modeling shows that the most populous parts of southeast louisiana inside that ted stormio be sllave wind threat and rain threat as well. it is really south along the coast. we think an awful lot of people did evacuate, but this is a very difficult storm. as you mentioned, it is going to come in with sustained winds of over 150 miles per hour. when you