brilliant their address there. we re ridest the stuff in civilized people and we re trying to do the right thing. but there s a lot that goes on, emotionally, that we re can t express. to have that little monster to put it out there like that, great, it s like relieve valve. sam, did not care if the audience hate them. he would bait them. he would challenge them to leave if they didn t like it. when you don t care, that s when you get the best results. very seldom does someone come along and create something that s usual. and the money from last week. sam really took comedy to an extreme in shouting, in some of the language, some of the taboo subjects that he went after. he said that a group of
no, i think we all live with this potential and this is what this whole floodway system is for. i wouldn t want to live any place else, but that s part of what comes with it. certainly, this is a floodway and built as a floodway. no, there was no, that decision was made way back in 1928 and the 30s all of those after the 27 flood. this was the design. from that perspective, that s what it is here for. it s here to provide that relieve valve for the river. this is where the water level reached in 73. 73. this is part of the wall that held it back. that s correct. and, t.j., the most important thing right now for officials here in south central louisiana is to get people out of the path of the water. they ve been going through a lot of these small towns that are in the path of the water, urging them all to evacuate. we ve seen that in places where people have been literally packing up every belonging they have into moving trucks and vans and trailers to get out of town. t.j
they re going to have to sacrifice some homes and businesses in order to save many, many more. the army corps expected to open louisiana s huge morganza spillway when the river flow hits 1.5 million cubic feet per second. what does that mean? all you need to know is that rate continues to go up and getting closer and closer to that point. the spillway was last opened in 1973, but we are expecting it today and maybe in the next few hours. now, doing that, what does that do? it takes the pressure off levees in baton rouge and new orleans and it will also flood seven louisiana parishes west of the river. the national guard is out. you see them here, they have been working around the clock filling sandbags in morgan city. that s a community of 12,000 that is expected to be just flooded out when this water is released. can you imagine this, folks? people just standing by and waiting on the water to come and destroy everything. it s worse than we thought. it s really worse than w