JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It made land fall in Mississippi, but we were in Mobile, which is just pretty much on the border with Mississippi. And everybody had thought that the story was going to be going inland around New Orleans; they evacuated New Orleans. So we go to sleep that night, figuring, well, the storm is to the west of us. Well, during the course of the night, the right side of the storm, which is the most powerful side of any hurricane, which has the storm surge, came right up over Mobile Bay. So at 4:00 in the morning my phone rings, and I'm sound asleep. And my producer says, "Can you hear what's going on outside?" and I said, "What is it?" And she says, "It's hitting us, we're in -- the hurricane is hitting us." So I get up and I look out, and I'm like, oh my God! The water was flowing down the street below us.</s>ZARRELLA: The pounding hasn't let up at all in mobile on and on, hour after hour.</s>ZARRELLA: The water was at least four feet high, covered the street, cars were under water, people were stranded, and we started live at about 6:00 that morning. This tremendous wall of water that had been pushed inland made for just an unbelievable picture. It was a river running down water street. Just incredible video of this new river that had been created in Mobile, Alabama.
CNN 20: Hurricane Georges Hits Mobile, AL, September 28, 1998