dance. >> you don't think so? >> no. no. we'll dance again around here. >> reporter: and the sign will be the last thing he grabs on the way out of town. ed lavendera, cnn, butte, larose, louisiana. >> general russel honore joins me by phone from baton rouge. general, we've just been talking about the cost of opening the morganza spillway. remind us, if you will, of the cost of not opening it? >> well, it's a worst case scenario if you don't open it. and the reason that morganza spillway is there, exactly for this reason. when the pressure gets on the mississippi river levees to open that up and go out through the spillways, randi. as a result of lessoned learned from the flood of 1927, 1912 and 1937 because baton rouge and new orleans will flood if we don't open up that spillway.