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Businesses Close and Prepare for Isaac

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    Café Du Monde vice president Burt Benrud on how he is preparing his business for Isaac.

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-- -- -- -- that New Orleans institution.

Cafe Dumont open 24 hours every single day except Christmas and today take a look at these pictures New Orleans has cleared out.

Bart bin -- as vice president cafe du -- joins us by phone.

From New Orleans Berger thanks for being -- whether you know I think the entire country is -- -- New -- you guys took it on the chin -- 05 Katrina will want to get hit again.

When did you close cafe Dumont and when you hope to open again.

Well we closed BR -- paid a month last night.

About though at 10 o'clock last night we think everybody you know we cleaned up and everybody home and we're open to -- open again not Thursday morning there's just gonna wait for the thing to -- then.

To get back below recent wary do -- every day.

Where's the bigger risk.

Doing without any business -- actually weren't about physical -- you have to above board up the windows what do you do to prepare.

Well -- you know are really our our biggest worry is there's.

There's -- -- really.

But.

That certainly does -- think we did to prepare is though we gave we gave all our employees the chance to go home.

To to take care -- -- you know make sure that that.

That that everything at state that there -- home.

And and you know from from our perspective you know with what we did to prepare.

But yet we did board up put up a few windows but some of the other building -- -- -- brief -- through Katrina though.

Note that the another -- another another encouraging to hear that -- so -- it is the tropical storm.

And we demand to you know the bitty -- government.

You know just that -- dude you've been evacuated buddy yet to be prepared.

You know prepare -- your home then and be prepared this stuff.

Just that they don't have built on built don't -- defense you know in the rain event that it now.

My biggest -- however is that it is this storm surge water.

You know window when the rain when it does Ali third grade in the city in oil and and at the -- them come in -- Citi.

You know high water.

Coming in the gulf -- so we we.

You know we did have -- Army Corps of Engineers that dumb.

Discretely a year ago and and -- -- that further along right now though.

-- it is but it is that a big worry you know we're gonna find out.

Yep part you know look at -- pictures right now of the storm's path that.

You can see New Orleans just -- and squarely in the middle of that projected movement and -- will make.

-- -- they've been kept a hurricane a big category one that's still serious is just.

Far less strong than Katrina was so in addition to I think being a little left strong a storm than Katrina what do you think that New Orleans itself.

Is in better shape better braced for this one than it was for Katrina -- Oh definitely definitely even if it even if there were up -- -- at the beer at Katrina.

Bomb and oil and -- is much much better prepared.

Then been everywhere that we were are back in 2005.

You know had it not been what do you break in the -- that -- No oil and you know -- to day right after Katrina would have just been a normal.

Bump everybody would have -- -- driven right back in the town.

However because the the failure of the -- that.

-- that did not happen well now here we are seven years later.

The Army Corps of Engineers to bend over ten billion dollar big thing to -- let the them to protect that -- -- -- war of one.

We have -- -- just pumping capacity.

In the world beer right now though while just this right now but over there right now it is up note if you well.

-- -- no it was coming.

You know everybody at home everybody.

You know prepared a yeah.

You know they be they brought in you know everybody went -- -- stores stocked up they still up there aren't asked that the date they need to -- down.

However if that's no -- you know we're gonna yeah we're gonna come back on Thursday morning yen and that it be great day.

-- right -- been -- all those big NEA's -- cafe Dumont best of -- Syria -- a baton down the hatches for -- we appreciate your being with us today.

Thank you very much thank -- well president.

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