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season and even though Arthur remained weak in terms of its overall sustained winds, it only had a winds of about 40 miles an hour that peaked as far as what occurred inland from the shore northward. Because it had this really really slow forward progression and it had a lot of intense convective banding, there was a very long multi-day flash flood event across a number of the Gulf states and just to give you an idea of how much rain fell in a few of these places. It was absolutely unreal. Cotton Port Louisiana 29 inches of rain so they had severe urban flooding, lots of damage. Ploshville Louisiana they had 22.5 inches of rain, again widespread inundation. Simmer Port Louisiana 17 inches or greater than 17 inches and Perkinson Mississippi they had 12 inches of rainfall.