marilu stone is one of the reluctant evacuees. five hundred year flood. right or not. i've been in this neighborhood forty years. never. it's no laughing matter though when soldiers from the national guard show up. the army corps of engineers decided to let out water from the nearby reservoir. to ease the pressure. a breach in the levee still deemed possible the dams our indicate. those who have come from further afield to get people out seem more aware of the gravity of the situation. natural dam breaks. yeah. everything everything out here underwater. everything's under. now you don't live down. they have. these homes are built on form of wetland. they although. residents here though trust that's a storm like harvey only comes along every five hundred or a thousand here. it can match and. houston. yeah if we haven't flooded now for not complying. she lives right here at the south lawn next door. and we are very blessed. yeah i can say that i have been so blessed and have electricity and cable as for the reasons for the extreme weather. one is swiftly excluded. lately