Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack reported live from Houma, Louisiana, in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Francine as the storm caused severe flooding.
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00:00We have team coverage of Francine with crews all along the Gulf Coast.
00:03You can get the latest right here on the AccuWeather Network as well as online
00:08at accuweather.com and on the free AccuWeather app.
00:11All right, right now we're going to go live.
00:14Right now we want to get to the latest on the storm.
00:17Let's go to Aaron Jajak who is in Houma, Louisiana.
00:20Now Houma, you know what, you're right in the eye now.
00:24The conditions have, they're certainly not great Aaron,
00:27but they weren't as bad as what they were, oh, about an hour ago.
00:32Yeah, we're in now.
00:33It looks like the hot, yeah, it's still very windy here.
00:37So it's not that high.
00:38We're still getting absolutely hammered with strong winds here.
00:42We've got some significant flooding here going across parking lots and whatnot,
00:45even though we're well off the coast.
00:48We've got some flooding going on here.
00:50I imagine a little bit to the west right now, wow, something just fell down.
00:56I'm making my way to the west right now because it almost looks like,
00:59like you were mentioning, it's tightening up.
01:01It's kind of forming on the eastern end now, a little bit further to my west.
01:05Yeah, so I'm kind of making my way out right now.
01:07You know, I don't know if you can see,
01:11but I'm going to switch to the camera view,
01:13but right now you can just see it's kind of casting in the overhead right now.
01:18Very strong winds.
01:20I want to see if we can do this.
01:28Could you pan the camera around?
01:30I want to show everything going on right now.
01:33You can see the dark clouds, but there is the water that Aaron was talking about.
01:37So we've already had some flooding.
01:39Looks like a parking lot right in there.
01:44And Aaron, just pan around here.
01:46We're having trouble hearing you here.
01:47I want, though, our viewers to see the damage that we've already had,
01:52and you can see the dark skies here.
01:54By the way, we're not done yet.
01:56Aaron will be in the western side of that eyewall.
01:58You can see the stop sign still blowing in the wind,
02:01but the big story looks like has been the amount of flash flooding
02:05from the rain and the wind.
02:07As I mentioned, Aaron is in the eye of Hurricane Francine.
02:12He still has the western eyewall to get through,
02:15and we'll be talking with Aaron as we go through the next couple of hours.
02:19Aaron Jajak again in Houma, Louisiana,
02:22and they're dealing with lots of problems with flooding.