It's going to get interesting, that's for sure! I'm sitting down in Venice, LA now riding it out at work. We went from about 40 people here down to 4. I evacuated 7 boats at 6am this morning, and the parish started mandatory evacuations at 6am too. They closed the flood wall up the road at 2pm, so I'm here for the long haul. They are predicting the river to get up to 19' at the carrolton gauge. That's about a foot shy of disaster.

I'm just hoping the levee about 50ft away from the building I'm in right now holds up!

Wind is picking up...averaging 30-35 with gusts to 40 right now. We got 7 inches of rain in a 3 hour period yesterday morning - that was crazy, especially trying to run the boat down the river in the middle of it!