[fish jumping] [ laughter ] thank the lord. [ laughter ] years of nothing nothing like this. we prayed. yes, but i m a simple man. a sinner. never, never expecting this.
crabs all over the neighborhood? i had a couple small blue fish jumping in my backyard on my grass. shepard: who was with you? my husband. shepard: what was the mood like? 6:00 this morning he started getting worried and thought we should bail, but we stuck it out. shepard: i talked to people who said as the worst of storm came through this city, 7, 8, , depending on where you are, you got to the point where i was like that is enough if it gets worst i m not comfortable. was that you guys? yeah, but there was nothing we could do they closed the bridge. once we were in, we were in. shepard: for the most part you are like all right, did the right thing? yeah, i think i made the right decision. shepard: couple more feet of storm surge, which they were projecting, and you would have had a couple feet in your house. i guess that wouldn t have been as pleasant.
biggest cities in louisiana. but it means tiny communities could soon be under many feet of water. this is what it looked like in 1973. the one and only time the morganza spillway had to be opened. there s no guarantee it will even work. the mississippi river is already dangerously high in new orleans. the army corps of engineers is hoping that by diverting water through two spillways will lower the river level and spare the city. so far, the corps says opening the morganza spillway appears to be having the desired effect. the biggest test is still days away, the highest water, hundreds of miles up river. this is greenville, mississippi, that you re looking at right now. a live report from there, and it is being inundated, straight ahead on cnn. let s get right to ed lavandera who was there when the morganza spillway was opened just about three hours ago. ed, tell us about it. ed lavandera is joining us on the phone. ed, can you hear us? reporter: just a while ago, this is